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• asked: who were these people? From where did they
• The visit to Rapa Nui at once confirmed this sense and complicated it. He and his companions were confronted by the fact that people of this ‘same Nation’ had sailed purposefully back and forth across the vast expanses of the Pacific. Such voyages were at the time challenging to Europeans, whose ships were made with the assistance of iron tools, th...
• From this vantage point, it is almost impossible to imagine the worlds we now know as island southeast Asia and Australia as they were 50,000 years ago. Even the outlines of the map are unfamiliar. The Pleistocene epoch, the last great ice age, began around 2.6 million years ago and lasted until some 11,700 years before the present. The periodic ad...