Add this story to the long list of evidences that there were pre-Columbus trips to the Americas.
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“There is increasing evidence of multiple contacts with the Americas,” she said, “based on linguistic evidence and similarities in fish hook styles.” Physical evidence of human DNA from Polynesia has yet to be found in South America, she added.
I still remember a teacher in high school saying all of the native Americans came across the Bering Strait. For many years, this was one of my main objections to the Book of Mormon. And of course the fact that Polynesians were clearly in the Americas but there is apparently no Polynesian DNA is an interesting twist.