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In your web page, you present Heyerdahl's qoute:

     ...our expedition doctor, Emil Gjessing, sampled blood from all
     those islanders who, according to Father Sebastian [the long
     time island priest who was very knowledgeable about the history
     of the island], were of pure local lineage.

You then contest Hagelberg's tests on the basis of their being of
late-period skeletal remains.

However, Heyerdahl has only 'a very knowledgeable' priest to rely on for
the racial purity of his samples.  I wouldn't trust the priest more than
the skeletal remains.  I have several questions:

1)why are there no 'old' skeletons left?
2)could you include the method and data parts of the Hagelberg article
in your web page.  I for one, as an interested islander, would like to
see the actual data, which you have not included. 
3)why would mtDNA be any less reliable than blood group data? At least
mtDNA is strictly maternally inherited, so easier to analyse for genetic
patterns.
4)What is your interest in EI and SA?  Are you SA in origin, or closely
affiliated.  I sense a strong motivation for your posts, and am
interested to see how it has arisen.

Regards
-- 
Paul D. Roughan
Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, NZ
Ph: (643)348-2567
Fax: (643) 364-2083
email: pdr27@student.canterbury.ac.nz