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Journal articles on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Junk, C., and M. Claussen. "Simulated climate variability in the region of Rapa Nui during the last millennium." Climate of the Past Discussions 7, no. 1 (2011): 381–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-7-381-2011.

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Abstract. Easter Island, an isolated island in the Southeast Pacific, was settled by the Polynesians probably between 600 and 1200 AD and discovered by the Europeans in 1722 AD. While the Polynesians presumably found a profuse palm woodland on Easter Island, the Europeans faced a landscape dominated by grassland. Scientists have examined potential anthropogenic, biological and climatic induced vegetation changes on Easter Island. Here, we analyze observational climate data for the last decades and climate model results for the period 800–1750 AD to explore potential causes for a climatic-induc

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Rull, Valentí. "Human Discovery and Settlement of the Remote Easter Island (SE Pacific)." Quaternary 2, no. 2 (2019): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat2020015.

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The discovery and settlement of the tiny and remote Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been a classical controversy for decades. Present-day aboriginal people and their culture are undoubtedly of Polynesian origin, but it has been debated whether Native Americans discovered the island before the Polynesian settlement. Until recently, the paradigm was that Easter Island was discovered and settled just once by Polynesians in their millennial-scale eastward migration across the Pacific. However, the evidence for cultivation and consumption of an American plant—the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)—on the

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Thorsby, Erik. "The Polynesian gene pool: an early contribution by Amerindians to Easter Island." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1590 (2012): 812–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0319.

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It is now generally accepted that Polynesia was first settled by peoples from southeast Asia. An alternative that eastern parts of Polynesia were first inhabited by Amerindians has found little support. There are, however, many indications of a ‘prehistoric’ (i.e. before Polynesia was discovered by Europeans) contact between Polynesia and the Americas, but genetic evidence of a prehistoric Amerindian contribution to the Polynesian gene pool has been lacking. We recently carried out genomic HLA (human leucocyte antigen) typing as well as typing for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome mar

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Haryono, Timbul. "IN SEARCH OF POLYNESIAN ORIGINS: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LAPITA CULTURE." Berkala Arkeologi 7, no. 2 (1986): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.30883/jba.v7i2.460.

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The islands of Polynesia make up the largest group among the islands in the Pacific ocean. This group, in fact, consist of many islands forming a triangle. The main groups in the west are the Tongan, and Samoan and Ellice groups. The Cook, Society and Tuamotus lie in the east, with Easter Island as a far-off isolate, while the Hawaiian Islands and New Zealand are separated to the north and south respectively of the main west-east belt. The location of these islands between Asia in the west, Australia in the south and South America continent in the east is of considerable significance to the pe

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Edwards, Edmundo. "Astronomically aligned religious structures on Raiatea and Raivavae and the Matariki festival of 1770 on Easter Island." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 7, S278 (2011): 275–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311012701.

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AbstractEastern Polynesian astronomy was practiced by navigators and astronomer-priests who were in charge of adjusting the lunar calendar and their annual ritual cycle of activities known as ‘The Work of the Gods’. The festivity known in Polynesia as Matariki, Matali'i or Matari'i was related to the heliacal and acronical rising and setting of the Pleiades. A study of 75 marae on the island of Raivavae, Austral Islands and of 7 marae in the island of Raiatea, Society Islands shows that there are alignments towards important star positions associated with this ritual cycle. Their use as observ

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Finney, Ben. "Voyage to Polynesia's land's end." Antiquity 75, no. 287 (2001): 172–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0005287x.

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Evidence that the earliest settlers on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) may have come from Mangareva and its outlying islands in Central East Polynesia is supported by the journey of the experimental voyaging canoe Hōkūle'a from Mangareva to Rapa Nui.

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Barber, Ian G., and Thomas F. G. Higham. "Archaeological science meets Māori knowledge to model pre-Columbian sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) dispersal to Polynesia’s southernmost habitable margins." PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (2021): e0247643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247643.

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Most scholars of the subject consider that a pre-Columbian transpacific transfer accounts for the historical role of American sweet potato Ipomoea batatas as the kūmara staple of Indigenous New Zealand/Aotearoa Māori in cooler southwestern Polynesia. Archaeologists have recorded evidence of ancient Polynesian I. batatas cultivation from warmer parts of generally temperate-climate Aotearoa, while assuming that the archipelago’s traditional Murihiku region in southern South Island/Te Waipounamu was too cold to grow and store live Polynesian crops, including relatively hardy kūmara. However, arch

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Della Casa, Philippe. "Radiocarbon Dates and the Earliest Colonization of East Polynesia: More than a Case Study." Radiocarbon 51, no. 2 (2009): 681–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200056022.

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Over the last 30 yr, there has been an ongoing debate on the dates and modes of the earliest colonization of East Polynesia, namely the Cook Islands, the 5 archipelagos of French Polynesia, the Hawai'i Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand. At least 3 alternative models were proposed by Sinoto, Anderson, Kirch, and Conte, but interestingly all these models basically relied on the same set of roughly 200 radiocarbon dates on various organic materials from archaeological excavations as far back as the 1950s. Some of the models differed by 500–1000 yr—for a proposed initial colonization around

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Aldrich, Robert. "The Decolonisation of the Pacific Islands." Itinerario 24, no. 3-4 (2000): 173–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300014558.

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At the end of the Second World War, the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia were all under foreign control. The Netherlands retained West New Guinea even while control of the rest of the Dutch East Indies slipped away, while on the other side of the South Pacific, Chile held Easter Island. Pitcairn, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands comprised Britain's Oceanic empire, in addition to informal overlordship of Tonga. France claimed New Caledonia, the French Establishments in Oceania (soon renamed French Polynesia) and Wallis and Futuna. The New Hebrides remai

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Ioannidis, Alexander G., Javier Blanco-Portillo, Karla Sandoval, et al. "Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement." Nature 583, no. 7817 (2020): 572–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2487-2.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Gossen, Candace Lynn. "Deforestation, Drought and Humans: New Discoveries of the Late Quaternary Paleoenvironment of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/782.

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The mystery of the trees of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is a complex problem within a dynamic ecosystem. With new physical cores from the volcanic crater lake Rano Kao, this dissertation uncovers a detailed 15,000 year ecological history of Easter Island and its climatic variability. New radiocarbon dating methods establish a more precise chronology which shows that the island before human habitation was very different than what we know today. It had a simple but prolific ecology that transitioned into a barren grassland. What factors caused the transition are unclear but are likely to be human r

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Boyd, Laura Jean. "Mythologizing the History of Easter Island through Documentary Films." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/boyd/BoydL1205.pdf.

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Documentaries have the power to rewrite history and perpetuate myths in our society. In the case of Easter Island, documentary filmmakers have sensationalized the history of the Rapa Nui people, dwelling on dramatic concepts such as eco-disaster, cannibalism and mysteriously vanishing cultures. As a result of poor filmmaking, we have a mythologized history of Easter Island. In my attempt to create a science-based documentary about an issue affecting contemporary Easter Island society, this mythologizing of history became a major obstacle. It became apparent that I had to first inform audiences

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Muñoz, Azócar Diego. "Diaspora Rapanui (1871-2015). L’île de Pâques, le Chili continental et la Polynésie française : une ethnographie historique de la mobilité dans une société transnationale." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0066/document.

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Le sujet de cette thèse est la société rapanui, quelques 5000 personnes, du nom de l’île qui en est le lieu d’origine et de référence, connue aussi comme l’île de Pâques. Si l’île demeure la référence pour chacun, la « société rapanui » n’est plus limitée à cette île de Polynésie orientale, mais inclut les communautés émigrées, installées au Chili continental (près de la moitié des Rapanui), principalement dans la grande région métropolitaine de Santiago, et un petit nombre à Tahiti, Polynésie française. Pour les Rapanui, Tahiti est un lieu important dans l’histoire de l’île, de la diaspora et

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Allen, Melinda S. "Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence : archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Oslands /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6437.

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Sottorff-Neculhueque, Ignacio [Verfasser]. "Diversity of Easter Island Actinobacteria and their secondary metabolites / Ignacio Sottorff-Neculhueque." Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1188612042/34.

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Håkansson, Olof. "Stratified Polynesia : A GIS-based study of prehistoric settlements in Samoa and Rapa Nui." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331545.

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The overall objective of this study is, to understand how the prehistoric individual experienced her “being in the world”. This is done by examining the spatial relationships of prehistoric remains in order to understand hierarchies. The foundation of the thesis is constructed by using data from the prehistoric settlement of Letolo in Samoa (Independent State of Samoa) in West-Polynesia and Hanga Ho´onu on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in East-Polynesia. These data are stored and analysed in a Geographical Information System (GIS). In the Samoan case the intention is to make previously unpublished

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Karaman, Ali Emre. "Statistical aspects of automatic pollen identification." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366220.

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Steiglechner, Peter. "A Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model of Human-Resource Interaction on Easter Island." Thesis, KTH, Numerisk analys, NA, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277730.

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The history of Easter Island, with its cultural and ecological mysteries, has attracted the interests of archaeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, and economists alike. Despite the great scientific efforts, uncertainties in the available archaeological and palynological data leave a number of critical issues unsolved and open to debate. The maximum size reached by the human population before the arrival of Europeans and the temporal dynamics of deforestation are some of the aspects still fraught with controversies. By providing a quantitative workbench for testing hypotheses and scenarios,

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Wozniak, Joan Alice. "Exploring landscapes on Easter Island (Rapanui) with geoarchaeological studies : settlement, subsistence, and environmental changes /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113031.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 689-733). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Hicks, Karen Elizabeth. "Studies towards the total synthesis of rapamycin." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341068.

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Books on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Easter Island. Creative Education, 2008.

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Drake, Alan. Easter Island: The ceremonial center of Orongo. Cloud Mountain Press, 1992.

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Thor, Heyerdahl. Easter Island--the mystery solved. Random House, 1989.

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Easter Island. Firefly Books, 2002.

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P, Lipo Carl, ed. The statues that walked: Unraveling the mystery of Easter Island. Free Press, 2011.

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Thor, Heyerdahl. Easter island--the mystery solved: The mystery solved. Random House, 1989.

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Lee, Georgia. Rock art of Easter Island: Symbols of power, prayers to the gods. Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.

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1944-, Orliac Michel, ed. The silent gods : mysteries of Easter Island. Thames and Hudson, 1995.

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G, Bahn Paul, ed. The enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the edge. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Bierbach, Annette. Religion and language of Easter Island: An ethnolinguistic analysis of religious key words of Rapa Nui in their Austronesian context. D. Reimer, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Van Tilburg, Jo Anne. "Easter Island." In Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1189-2_8.

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Kirksey, Lindley. "Easter Island Under Glass: Observations and Conversations." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_13.

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Loret, John. "Introduction: An Easter Island Experience—How it all Started." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_1.

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Boyko, Christopher B. "The Endemic Marine Invertebrates of Easter Island: How Many Species and for How Long?" In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_10.

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Magliulo-Cepriano, Lucia, Martin P. Schreibman, and John T. Tanacredi. "Finfish in the Rano Kau Caldera of Easter Island." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_11.

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Hemm, Robert A., and Marcelo Mendez. "Aerial Surveys of Isle De Pasqua: Easter Island and the New Birdmen." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_12.

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Reanier, Richard E., and Donald P. Ryan. "Mapping the Poike Ditch." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_14.

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Loret, John, and John T. Tanacredi. "Addendum." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_15.

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Loret, John. "A Cultural Icon: Scientific Exploration into the World’s Environmental Problems in Microcosm." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_2.

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Tanacredi, J. T., K. Buckley, T. Savage, and B. Cliver. "Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile: An Eco-Tourism Outline with Issues and Suggestions." In Easter Island. Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Zeferjahn, Tanya, Matthew Becker, and Carl Lipo. "SUBMARINE DISCHARGE AND THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF EASTER ISLAND." In 112th Annual GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016cd-274674.

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Onederra, O., I. Zamora, J. I. San Martin, F. J. Asensio, G. Saldana, and A. A. Silva. "Design of Easter Island Energy Supply by Renewable Energy Sources." In 2019 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccep.2019.8890108.

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Martinelli, Julieta, Sandra Gordillo, Sandra Gordillo, et al. "FIRST CHARACTERIZATION OF DRILLING PREDATION ON EASTER ISLAND - RAPA NUI." In GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017. Geological Society of America, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-303900.

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Kao, Hei-Ling, and Huann-Ming Chou. "Observing the conflict between human civilisation and Mother Nature in environmental changes on Easter Island." In 2017 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icasi.2017.7988581.

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Popp, Brian, Catrine Jarman, Thomas Larsen, et al. "DIET OF THE PREHISTORIC POPULATION OF RAPA NUI (EASTER ISLAND, CHILE) SHOWS ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE." In 113th Annual GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting - 2017. Geological Society of America, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017cd-292619.

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Yao, W. F., A. L. Peratt, P. Bustamante, and R. Tuki. "A complete survey of the rock art on easter island as solar-earth MHD instablities recorded by mankind in antiquity." In 2009 IEEE 36th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/plasma.2009.5227369.

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Reports on the topic "Polynesians in Easter Island"

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Hooper, M. J. G., and A. S. Dyke. Surficial geology, Agu Bay and Easter Cape, Baffin Island, Nunavut. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/211525.

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James J. Herlan, James J. Herlan. Digitizing the Coral Reefs of Easter Island and Salas y Gómez. Experiment, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/1657.

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Gossen, Candace. Deforestation, Drought and Humans: New Discoveries of the Late Quaternary Paleoenvironment of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Portland State University Library, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.782.

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