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Re:A Stick Chart from the Marshall Islands (2016) by p0pcult on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:54AM (#34597633)
The presumption applies to the navigational techniques, not the inhabitance. As your own pull quote states, the inhabitance is a thing that archaeologists have determined, not presumed.

Also: where is the hyperbole?

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Re:A Stick Chart from the Marshall Islands (2016) by mc32 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:16PM (#34598047)
That is a claim not a fact. The hyperbola is "even the remotest island in the Pacific was inhabited". Surely many were, but they exaggerate and imply by virtue of relative position that even the remotest island was inhabited --that is very unlikely. What is the remotest island in the Pacific if I'm on an Aleutian island, vs Micronesia, vs Indonesia, etc...
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