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Which of the Following Is True About the Peopling of the Pacific

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Which of the following is true about the peopling of the Pacific?


A) The earliest-known settlement in Polynesia occurred sometime between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago.
B) Navigation skills played an important role in the peopling of the Pacific.
C) Humans may have reached as far as the Galapagos more than 30,000 years ago.
D) Australia appears to have served as an initial point of expansion, via outrigger canoe, to Samoa and eventually Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island.
E) Once humans reached the Pacific, they did not settle there but moved onward to the western coast of South America.

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