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Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Wednesday June 26, 2024 ( 1 items )  

Study Challenges Popular Idea That Easter Islanders Committed 'Ecocide'
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 ballooned to unsustainable levels; they  more