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Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
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> See the Chapter POLYNESIANS REACHED MELANESIA FROM THE EAST (p. 52ff) in
> AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC. There Heyerdahl cites Buck (1938), who
> was a supporter of mainstream view that Polynesians came from the West.
> But he had to admit that the evidence points otherwise in this particular
> case.
> 
> "That intermixture took place between the Melanesians and Polynesians may
> also be admitted, but it appears that this mixture was due to a later
> westward movement of Polynesians from Tonga and Samoa rather than to
> contact with Melanesians by the original Polynesian migrants of their way
> through Melanesian islands." (p. 52)
> 
> Also other sources are cited to this effect, including linguistic.
> 
> And Ross Clark basically said the same thing re linguistic evidence
> recently.
> 

Gisele, I think you know Yuri well enough not to take his word for
anything like this. I did not say the same thing as what Heyerdahl
suggests. As usual, it's hard to tell whether Yuri has just
misunderstood something I said, or is deliberately misrepresenting it. 

Ross Clark