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Paywall. Can someone give a tl;dr?

• jdmichal 11y ago
  The Ars article on this is actually much better than the Washington Post one: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/new-evidence-easter-island-civilization-was-not-destroyed-by-war/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/new-evidence-easter-i...
• PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  The "web" link under the article title does a Google search for the title; arriving via Google usually bypasses paywalls. It's still a pain, but not as much so.
  • jkldotio 11y ago
    >usually Not for me this time, nor earlier this week. I believe the HN staff have subscriptions to most of these, as they have argued I should get over it when I complained, but that leaves the rest of us to do 3-4 pageloads before we find out it's a hard paywall and not a soft paywall.
• ktRolster 11y ago
  tl;dr = There are little spearheads all over the island. An expert in spear-heads looked at them and said they aren't very practical as spearheads, and thy are probably not weapons at all. The authors attribute deforestation to the arrival of rats, not to weird cult rituals.