Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Study Challenges Popular Idea That Easter Islanders Committed 'Ecocide'
June 22, 2024
June 22, 2024
NEW YORK, June 22 (TNSres) -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
By Kevin Krajick
Some 1,000 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. E . . .
By Kevin Krajick
Some 1,000 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. E . . .