dating technology to sites in East Polynesia pointed toward considerably later settlement than many researchers had previously argued. Although Kirch initially was skeptical of these changes, he did come around to accepting the weight of the evidence. His straightforward discussion of this change, and the dating issues that still remain for Mangaia, truly represent what the internal correction mechanisms of evidence-based research should look like. At this time, humans appear to have settled the island approximately 1000 years ago.

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Tangatatau Rockshelter：东部波利尼西亚社会生态系统的演变。由Patrick Vinton Kirch编辑。2017.加州大学洛杉矶分校科森考古研究所出版社，洛杉矶。326页

将技术用于东波里尼西亚的站点的研究表明，定居比许多研究人员先前认为的晚得多。尽管基尔奇起初对这些变化表示怀疑，但他确实接受了证据的分量。他对这一变化的直接讨论以及对Mangaia仍然存在的约会问题，确实代表了循证研究的内部校正机制应该是什么样的。此时，人类似乎已经在大约1000年前定居了该岛。