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>Our analyses suggest strongly that a single contact event occurred in eastern Polynesia, prior to the settlement of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), between Polynesians and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia.
>dugout gets blown out to sea
>dudes get lucky find "dry land"
>take wives
I can accept that. Does not amount to a seafaring culture, though.