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This has been known for many years and it would match with the local legends that literally say that the statues "walked" to their resting places. It looks lik
by vfc1 8y ago
This has been known for many years and it would match with the local legends that literally say that the statues "walked" to their resting places.
It looks like the arrival of Europeans had a lot to do with the quick demise of the Easter Island, by introducing diseases, rats and by enslaving the local population.
This would match what happened on a much larger scale elsewhere, for example in both South and North America.
- dethswatch 8y agorats had been there from the start and are a good (imo) explanation for what happened-- the tree and their seeds were preyed upon. [This explains explains it from an academic standpoint.](https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Collapse-Resilience-Ecological-Vulnerability/dp/0521733669 https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Collapse-Resilience-Ecolo...) Saying that they killed all the trees to help the moai get into place (or similar) is ridiculous. In addition, the first reports from the 1720+ timeframe (first contact and there abouts) estimated the population at a few hundred iirc, no trees, toppled moai.