Post #608266 by AlienTiki on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 4:11 PM

On 2011-09-27 09:00, JONPAUL wrote:
Your "established" link doesn't seem to work, Eric.
And, HERE'S the corrected version of Bosko's link. (Good call--thanks, man!)

Thanks for the heads up. I fixed the link.

I think it's grasping at straws for people to believe that South Americans were the first Polynesians. Thor's theories don't hold nearly as much water as his leaky reed raft the kontiki did.
It's arrogant to believe that Polynesians couldn't travel east. However in the case of Rapa Nui Thor may have been partial right. The settlers may have came from Polynesia/Melanesia and South America and melted together into the Easter islanders that are left today. The quality of stone work
found on Rapa Nui that resembles Incan masonry is more proof than DNA. By the time of Capt Cooks third and final voyage the people of Rapa Nui were almost gone. So im sure that the Chilean islanders now have some indio blood. It's been part of Chile for over a century.

Mahalo
Eric