![]() ![]() ![]() “Today, one more step has been taken through this historic agreement with Norway, which will enable the return of valuable cultural and symbolic pieces.” “As a ministry, we have the mission to respond to the just demand of the Rapa Nui people to recover their cultural heritage,” Chile’s culture minister, Consuelo Valdes, said in a statement. “The study of human remains – using DNA – could demonstrate a prehistoric contact between Rapa Nui and South America, which was the main thesis of my father,” Thor Heyerdahl Jr said. He was seeking to prove his theory that the Polynesian islands could have been settled by prehistoric South American people, and not by settlers from Asia as most scholars believed. The Rapa Nui island community is demanding the return of one of the island’s monolithic statues, or moai, from the British Museum. ![]()
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