100-year old Polynesian settlement in Utah desert uncovered

In Utah’s Skull Valley, there was a short-lived town where Polynesian converts to Mormonism lived between 1889 and 1917, when most of them returned to Oahu. Archaeologists are conducting the first survey of the site, and what they want to know is how pioneers from paradise lived day to day in such a desolate place.

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