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Human Colonisation and Extinction at the Margins of Polynesia
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Most islands of Polynesia were settled by A. D. 1000, and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on isolated landfalls. More than a dozen ecologically-marginal islands found throughout the eastern Pacific have records of prehistoric settlement, but were abandoned by the time of European contact.
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