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Here we analyse genome-wide variation in individuals from islands across Polynesia for signs of Native American admixture, analysing 807 individuals from 17 island populations and 15 Pacific coast Native American groups. We find conclusive evidence for prehistoric contact of Polynesian individuals with Native American individuals (around 1200) contemporaneous with the settlement of remote Oceania. Our analyses suggest strongly that a single contact event occurred in eastern Polynesia, before the settlement of Rapa Nui, between Polynesian individuals and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia

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Iannoidis et al 2020: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement - Nature


Some of the Native American gene flow was found on the Marquesas islands. Here is a tiki at Hiva Oa in the Marquesas (photo Andoni Canela)

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