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As Easter Island is downwind from South America, it seems plausible that these people came from there. DNA evidence exists of chickens being exactly the same (pre-Columbian) in both Easter Island and Chile. But then why do they speak Polynesian and the local peoples DNA is that of the cultures to their west? Perhaps there were two migrations as Heyerdahl and others suggest.
Easter Island
March 12, 2010