Study Challenges Popular Idea That Easter Islanders Committed 'Ecocide'
June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024
TUCSON, Arizona, June 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:
Some 800 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places - a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui. There, they erected hundreds of "moai," or gigantic stone statues that now famously stand as emblems of a vanished civilization.
Eventually, their numbers . . .
Some 800 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places - a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui. There, they erected hundreds of "moai," or gigantic stone statues that now famously stand as emblems of a vanished civilization.
Eventually, their numbers . . .