I'll do you a good turn as well:
Posted on 10/23/2014 2:15:04 PM PDT by blam
Maybe they captured slaves and brought them back.
I'm reminded of this article I posted here eleven years ago.
Round trips are hard.
All you need are some wayward South Americans who manage to get blown to the Island by luck to get an ‘admixture’
Yes?
That anyone would find and live on an island in the middle of the Pacific is puzzling enough.
I’m thinking that Fletcher Christian, or some of his buddies, may have nailed a few on occasion.
Kon-Tiki??
I wonder if anyone has studied Easter polynesian (rapa nui) to look for loan words that are of apparent amerindian origin. Because if there were enough contact to change the bloodline maybe there could be some trace in the language.
Uh oh, some people are going to have to find a way to apologize to the now deceased Thor Heyerdahl.
Further West in the Pacific, there were some amazing sailors. Perhaps they had contact with Easter island and taught them (or the other way around).
People these days appear not to know that one can go great distances in a small boat with a sail and a skillful sailor and some guts.
Good read: The Polynesian gene pool: an early contribution by Amerindians to Easter Island
That is exactly what I thought too. People had to get to the island in the first place. They came from somewhere. Seems likely explorers wandered onto the island or maybe a group had to flee for their lives and fled SA for the ocean
i loved that book.
Kon-Tiki was right—South Americans sailed west—other peoples came from the east—Look at illustrations of masted sailing craft—that predate contact with Europeans—on Easter Island. Then their is the mysterious Rongo-rongo boards with their odd writing—so far untraslateable—it might as well be Martian.
Good addition, thanks.
Really appreciate you pointing out Uranus-NOT!
Teasing clues: Indus Valley inscriptions (also not translated) on the left, Rongo Rongo on the right.
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