Human Discovery and Settlement of the Remote Easter Island (SE Pacific)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Island Today
3. The East–West Debate
3.1. Rapanui Mythology
3.2. South American Origins
3.3. Polynesian Origins
3.4. Peopling of the Pacific
4. The Sweet Potato Enigma
4.1. Long-Distance Dispersal Hypothesis
4.2. Back-and-Forth Hypothesis
4.3. Heyerdahl Hypothesis
4.4. Newcomers Hypothesis
5. New Evidence
5.1. Sweet Potato Phylogeography
5.2. Physical Anthropology
5.3. Paleoecology
6. Conclusions and Final Remarks
Conflicts of Interest
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