Study: No Evidence for Easter Island 'Ecocide' Theory
Study: No Evidence for Easter Island 'Ecocide' Theory
Above: View on the "traveller" moai statue in front of Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Image copyright: *** GETTY *** Micheline Pelletier/Corbis via Getty Images
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A new genomic analysis published in Nature on Wednesday found no evidence that the indigenous population of the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, suffered a self-inflicted collapse due to overexploiting natural resources, challenging Jared Diamond's popular "ecocide" theory.
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