A new study reveals that the first settlers of Easter Island had a fusion cuisine of plants native to Polynesia and South America, suggesting regular contact between early Polynesians and South Americans a millennium ago.
One thousand years ago, the first settlers of Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — feasted on a fusion cuisine of plants native to Polynesia but also ones indigenous to South America , around 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, a new study finds. Researchers discovered the food remnants by identifying starch grains clinging to obsidian blades at the archaeological site of Anakena, the earliest known settlement on Rapa Nui , which was occupied from about A.D.
1000 to 1300, according to the study, published Wednesday (March 20) in the journal PLOS One. The finding suggests that the early Polynesians had regular contact with the people of South America as far back as a millennium ago. The southeastern Pacific island Rapa Nui is known primarily for the hundreds of monolithic human statues called moai that were erected on stone ceremonial platforms called ahus. The island was formed from three volcanoes, two of which are now extinct, and early settlers carved the moai from the consolidated volcanic ash. Although Rapa Nui was not known to the wider world until Dutch explorers landed there on Easter Sunday in 1722, the native people had already lived on the island for hundreds of years. But the specific timing of their settlement and their geographic origins remain somewhat mysterious, and experts disagree about whether the earliest settlers came from Polynesia, South America or bot
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