Ancient Americans helped colonize Easter Island long before the arrival of Europeans
Easter Island is the most remote place humans have ever colonized , and the fact we got there at all is a miracle . Now it look like this island was colonize not once , not doubly , but three whole separate time . The first and most important wave of settlement was by Polynesians , who belike reached the island sometime between 700 and 1,100 C.E. The third and final moving ridge were the Europeans , who first encountered the island in 1722 and returned in the 1860s for a series of devastating raids that sell much of the endemic universe into slavery ....