People have known about earlier contacts for a long time. Norse contact at l'anse aux meadows has been established since the late 90s. Trans-bering contact has been known for centuries.
Humans arrived to rapa nui and other Pacific Islands relatively late, many thousands of years after the Holocene began. Stronger evidence of 13th century contact doesn't change anything about our understanding of the early history of the Americas.
Humans arrived to rapa nui and other Pacific Islands relatively late, many thousands of years after the Holocene began. Stronger evidence of 13th century contact doesn't change anything about our understanding of the early history of the Americas.