Mia Campo’s Reviews > Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth > Status Update

Polynesian voyages of discovery are fascinating to contemplate!

Personal note:
Author follows theory of (Moreno-Mayar and Sousa da Mota) that Polynesians reached South American continent, then set back out to sea and reached already settled Rapa Nui and other more easterly islands, thus accounting for presence of Native American DNA in some islands and sweet potatoes in Polynesia.

Personal notes:
Sweet potato's presence, traced via linguistics, in Polynesia (sweet potato comes from Americas; linguistics say not a million years kind of migration)
Genome usage demonstrates Polynesian and American contact and intermingling, combined with archaeological evidence shows this occurred after Rapa Nui discovered and settled by Polynesians

Opening devastation lol. Map, amazing. First sentence, great. Preface... Goes out of its way to belittle the work of Graham Hancock 😭 it's ok if you as an academic disagree but that's usually a sign of close mindedness in archaeologists 😔✊