DNA Study Finds No Evidence that Ancient Easter Islanders Intermixed with South Americans
Oct 13, 2017 by News Staff / Source
Fehren-Schmitz et al found no Native American admixture in pre- and post-European-contact Rapanui. Image credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / CC BY-SA 3.0.
Easter Island (also known as Rapa Nui), a remote island in the southeast Pacific Ocean, has long been a source of intrigue and mystery.
How did such a small community of people build so many impressively large statues? And what happened to cause that community to collapse?
http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/dna-study-no-evidence-easter-islanders-intermixed-south-americans-05318.html
