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Molle Guillaume
@molleguillaume
Lecturer in Pacific Archaeology at the ANU. ARC DECRA Fellow 2019-2022
Jul 8, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise, I need to say something about how problematic this article is: nature.com/articles/d4158… It based on modern genome analysis of individuals on today’s French Polynesia, Cook Is. and Rapa Nui. ADMIXTURE analyses show that many islanders appear to have a European component from colonial admixture, but also detect admixture in eastern Polynesia from Native American ind.