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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans Interbred
The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter ... between them, ancient DNA suggests. The islanders, once the poster child ...
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First Inhabitants
for the Rapanui people, "the underpinning of Rapanui culture. Literally, it was, according to Van Tilburg, "fuel for moai building." From at least AD 1000 to 1680, Rapa Nui's population increased ...
Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory
Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the ... The researchers looked into the genomes of the Ancient Rapanui ...
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On Rapa Nui, step away from the crowds to explore one of the world’s most remote places
Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people there was a belief that ... a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from the wind.