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New research shows that Native South Americans may have helped populate Polynesia 800 years ago.

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A recent study published in the journal Nature sheds new light on the traditionally unpopular theory that Native South Americans

may have helped populate Polynesia. The study found that people on five Polynesian islands,

including Rappanui or Easter Island,

have small amounts of DNA that can be traced back to people who lived in Colombia eight centuries ago.

Scholars have long believed that Asian people started venturing east about 3,500 years ago

and began populating Polynesia about a thousand years ago without ever going

over to South America. This new research suggests either Polynesians kept going at some point

to South America and then brought some South American people back with them to Polynesia,

or that South Americans themselves were the ones to voyage to Polynesia on their own accord.

Quoting the New York Times,

In an earlier study on Rapa Nui, led by Anna Sapfo Malaspinas of the University of Lausanne,

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