Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

[George Scithers owlswick@xxxxxxxx]

Seems far more likely that the Easter Islanders are of Polynesian
ancestry -- they wound up on an island with not enough trees for them to go
into shipbuilding again, and so were trapped there.

George Scithers of owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx
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From: "Charles Knouse" 
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Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas


> Fascinating. Have the monoliths on Easter Island been dated? If Heyerdahl
is
> right, and I'm sure he is, the original settlers of Easter Island were
from
> the western coast of South America, at a time when civilization there was
> well established and probably threatened by invaders.
>
> Charles
>
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> > I once labored at a 11,500-year-old mammoth boneyard in Idaho, where
> scholars
> > looked for signs of contact between man and an array of extinct
mammals.
> > Phil Adamsak
>