Similar Stories to Easter Island’s Ancient Inhabitants Weren’t So Lonely After All, Genetic Study Reveals on Bing News

Reuters, Raw Story: Science
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 12:24pm

They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the closest island, erecting huge stone figures that still stare enigmatically from the hillsides. But the ancient Polynesian people who populated Easter Isla...

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