Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse

Photo of Moai statues on Rapa NuiThe new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries before the arrival of Europeans.