CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- The Sites, Amount of Skeletal Material, and Chronology -- Methods -- II. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE CRANIA -- Craniostat Drawings -- III. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE POSTCRANIA -- IV. THE ESTIMATION OF STATURE -- V. PATHOLOGY -- VI. CLIMATE, WATER, SOIL, AND DIET -- VII. CRANIAL AND POSTCRANIAL COMPARISONS WITH OTHER STUDIES -- Earlier Easter Island Male Studies -- The Easter Island Male Physical Type: Middle and Late Periods, and Living -- Male Easter Island Crania Compared with Crania from Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia -- The Validity of Comparing Male Easter Island Postcranial Remains with Those of Other Polynesians -- VIII. FORMER THEORIES AND A LEGEND -- IX. THE VALIDITY OF HEYERDAHL'S THEORY OF THE POPULATING OF POLYNESIA -- X. ABO BLOOD GROUP GENE FREQUENCIES -- XI. POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EASTER ISLAND -- The Linguistic Evidence -- The Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence -- APPENDICES -- A. Cranial Measurements -- B. Postcranial Measurements -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.