Did Easter Islanders Have Early Contact with South Americans?
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | October 13, 2017 07:05am ET
On a map, Easter Island is a remote dot more than 2,000 miles (3,219 kilometers) from the western coast of Chile. It has long fascinated archaeologists —not only for its hundreds of enormous statues, called moai, but also because it could hold clues about epic Pacific sea voyages and subsequent cultural mash-ups that occurred before the arrival of Europeans.
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