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Voyage to Polynesia's land's end

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ben Finney
Ben Finney*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu HI 96822, USA.
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Evidence that the earliest settlers on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) may have come from Mangareva and its outlying islands in Central East Polynesia is supported by the journey of the experimental voyaging canoe Hōkūle'a from Mangareva to Rapa Nui.

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Rapa NuiEaster IslandPolynesiaseafaringexperimental archaeology

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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 287 , March 2001, pp. 172 - 181
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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