How was Polynesia settled?
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Why Files - September 28, 2007
Were they blown out to sea by a storm and then lucky enough to wash up on remote flyspeck islands like Tahiti, Easter Island or Hawaii? ...
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Moai, Eco-destruction, Brief History of Rapa Nui
How did Easter Island's ancient statues lead to the destruction of an entire ecosystem?
By By Steve Connor
Independent
Published: 04 July 2007
The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such massive edifices – each weighing many tons – without the help of wheels, cranes, machines, metal tools or draft animals?
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By By Steve Connor
Independent
Published: 04 July 2007
The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such massive edifices – each weighing many tons – without the help of wheels, cranes, machines, metal tools or draft animals?
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Soylent Green - Rapa Nui connection?
Mulling world’s future from back end of a car
By Joe Konopka
Nashuatelegraph.com
Published: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Even more disturbing is that the fictional consequences of “Soylent Green” aren’t so improbable. They were echoed in a 1978 documentary, “Blind Prophets of Easter Island,” about an archeological expedition led by Jacques Cousteau. It uncovered evidence that had ominous overtones.
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By Joe Konopka
Nashuatelegraph.com
Published: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Even more disturbing is that the fictional consequences of “Soylent Green” aren’t so improbable. They were echoed in a 1978 documentary, “Blind Prophets of Easter Island,” about an archeological expedition led by Jacques Cousteau. It uncovered evidence that had ominous overtones.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Rapa Nui's economy led to deforestation
Bee's Global Losses at 80% due to Global Warming and Impact of Peak: Oil, GDP and CO2 / Commodities / Climate Change
By: David_Petch
Market Oracle
May 20, 2007 - 06:45 PM
A former tribe living on Easter Island made an economy for building and moving statutes. Carts were made to move the statues as well as maintain a fleet of fishing vessels and homes. The rapid explosion of their population resulted in complete deforestation of the island, which translated into no new fishing boats to be built or maintenance of current ones i.e. no fish, no food with death to follow. The sudden disappearance of the trees collapsed the statue industry and all was abandoned; the civilization as they knew it ceased to exist.
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By: David_Petch
Market Oracle
May 20, 2007 - 06:45 PM
A former tribe living on Easter Island made an economy for building and moving statutes. Carts were made to move the statues as well as maintain a fleet of fishing vessels and homes. The rapid explosion of their population resulted in complete deforestation of the island, which translated into no new fishing boats to be built or maintenance of current ones i.e. no fish, no food with death to follow. The sudden disappearance of the trees collapsed the statue industry and all was abandoned; the civilization as they knew it ceased to exist.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Rapanui society collapsed due to overuse of natural resources
Marco A. Janssen describes the human world
Marco Janssen
Earth & Sky
March 11, 2007
Some ancient societies even collapsed due to the overuse of natural resources, as in the famous case of Easter Island.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Rapanui civilization collapsed due to sudden changes in climate
WNC scientists have big impact on climate debate
by Dale Neal, DNEAL@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
published February 26, 2007 12:15 am
Civilizations have collapsed in the past with sudden changes in the climate, including the Maya in Central America, the natives of Easter Island and the Vikings who settled Greenland.
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by Dale Neal, DNEAL@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
published February 26, 2007 12:15 am
Civilizations have collapsed in the past with sudden changes in the climate, including the Maya in Central America, the natives of Easter Island and the Vikings who settled Greenland.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Rapa Nui as eco-morality tale
Age of Inconclusive Wars
Written by Sundeep Waslekar
Media Line
Published Wednesday, January 24, 2007
What happened in Easter Island, a small piece of paradise and advanced civilisation in the Pacific, is of relevance to the entire world. What the Easter Islanders did there is being played out on a bigger screen on the earth.
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Written by Sundeep Waslekar
Media Line
Published Wednesday, January 24, 2007
What happened in Easter Island, a small piece of paradise and advanced civilisation in the Pacific, is of relevance to the entire world. What the Easter Islanders did there is being played out on a bigger screen on the earth.
Click here for complete article.
Erecting moai inconsistent with Rapanui ecology
David Keller
NetXNews
January 21, 2007
For example, Easter Island culture's ritual of erecting gigantic stone monuments was not consistent with the ecology of the island ecosystem, and led to the end of that civilization.
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NetXNews
January 21, 2007
For example, Easter Island culture's ritual of erecting gigantic stone monuments was not consistent with the ecology of the island ecosystem, and led to the end of that civilization.
Click here for complete article.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Deforestation led to extinction of dodo on Rapanui
Bird extinctions may quicken
Loss of habitat, warming, cats are all factors
BY JIM WAYMER
FLORIDA TODAY
January 23, 2007
Polynesians, for one, cut down too many trees on Easter Island, killing off most birds there, including the dodo.
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Loss of habitat, warming, cats are all factors
BY JIM WAYMER
FLORIDA TODAY
January 23, 2007
Polynesians, for one, cut down too many trees on Easter Island, killing off most birds there, including the dodo.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Hawaiian forest disappearance similar to Rapanui's
Rats likely decimated Ewa forest
Oahu's Ewa Plain once had a large native dryland forest that suddenly disappeared, similar to Easter Island
By Helen Altonn
haltonn@starbulletin.com
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Vol. 12, Issue 21 - Sunday, January 21, 2007
Oahu's Ewa Plain once had a large native dryland forest that suddenly disappeared, similar to the forest on Easter Island, according to archaeological studies.
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Oahu's Ewa Plain once had a large native dryland forest that suddenly disappeared, similar to Easter Island
By Helen Altonn
haltonn@starbulletin.com
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Vol. 12, Issue 21 - Sunday, January 21, 2007
Oahu's Ewa Plain once had a large native dryland forest that suddenly disappeared, similar to the forest on Easter Island, according to archaeological studies.
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Rats the cause of Rapanui deforestation?
Rats latest culprit in Rapa Nui's demise
A UH researcher disputes that people caused deforestation
By Helen Altonnhaltonn@starbulletin.com
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Vol. 12, Issue 21 - Sunday, January 21, 2007
Millions of rats, rather than humans, may have caused Easter Island's ecological devastation, suggests a University of Hawaii-Manoa anthropologist.
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A UH researcher disputes that people caused deforestation
By Helen Altonnhaltonn@starbulletin.com
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Vol. 12, Issue 21 - Sunday, January 21, 2007
Millions of rats, rather than humans, may have caused Easter Island's ecological devastation, suggests a University of Hawaii-Manoa anthropologist.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Rapanui "ignored nature"
THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS' PART 17
Frosty Woolridge
NewsWithViews.com
January 18, 2007
In his book, “COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond illustrated how great civilizations dismantled their own sustainability. On tiny Easter Island, humans ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died of overpopulation via starvation.
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Frosty Woolridge
NewsWithViews.com
January 18, 2007
In his book, “COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond illustrated how great civilizations dismantled their own sustainability. On tiny Easter Island, humans ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died of overpopulation via starvation.
Click here for complete article.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Were rats the cause of Rapanui's deforestation?
Rats, not men, to blame for death of Easter Island
A vast army of rodents gnawed its way through the Pacific paradise's palm nuts and left it a wasteland
By Roger Dobson
Independent Online Edition
Published: 07 January 2007
Although Easter Island has long been held to be the most important example of a traditional society destroying itself, it appears that the real culprits were rats - up to three million of them.
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A vast army of rodents gnawed its way through the Pacific paradise's palm nuts and left it a wasteland
By Roger Dobson
Independent Online Edition
Published: 07 January 2007
Although Easter Island has long been held to be the most important example of a traditional society destroying itself, it appears that the real culprits were rats - up to three million of them.
Click here for complete article.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Rapa Nui as metaphor for planet
Future grim, despite the festive season
by Sanitsuda Ekachai, Assistant Editor
Bangkok Post
Thursday December 28, 2006
Like Easter Island, our Planet Earth is an isolated island in the universe, says Nidhi. We have nowhere else to go if things go bust.
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by Sanitsuda Ekachai, Assistant Editor
Bangkok Post
Thursday December 28, 2006
Like Easter Island, our Planet Earth is an isolated island in the universe, says Nidhi. We have nowhere else to go if things go bust.
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Blog post about the Rongorongo
The Other Mystery of Easter Island
Posted by Stephanie Benson
Damn Interesting
December 26th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Where the moai are fascinating for their unknown purpose and mysterious craftsmen, the island's lost language of Rongorongo is equally perplexing. The unique written language seems to have appeared suddenly in the 1700s, but within just two centuries it was exiled to obscurity.
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Thanks to MrBaliHai for suggesting the content for this post.
Posted by Stephanie Benson
Damn Interesting
December 26th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Where the moai are fascinating for their unknown purpose and mysterious craftsmen, the island's lost language of Rongorongo is equally perplexing. The unique written language seems to have appeared suddenly in the 1700s, but within just two centuries it was exiled to obscurity.
Click here for complete post.
Thanks to MrBaliHai for suggesting the content for this post.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Trip to Rapa Nui yields more questions than answers
Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, yields more questions than answers
By Betsa Marsh, Travel Arts Syndicate
Photos by Betsa Marsh, Travel Arts Syndicate
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Travelers are encouraged to arrive on this little Chilean outpost with their own pet theories about the prehistoric stone colossi that tower over mortals. Because there is no airtight archaeological proof, chances are they'll go home with their own Easter Island "truthiness."
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Letter questions rat theory
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
John Flenley/Paul Bahn (with response by Dr. Terry Hunt)
American Scientist Online
Viewed December 7, 2006
We find it difficult to take seriously the article "Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island" (September-October) in which Terry L. Hunt concludes that rats, not humans, were the main cause of the island's deforestation. We strongly believe that the archaeological and botanical data do point clearly to a scenario of human overexploitation of resources.
Click here to read the letter and a response.
John Flenley/Paul Bahn (with response by Dr. Terry Hunt)
American Scientist Online
Viewed December 7, 2006
We find it difficult to take seriously the article "Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island" (September-October) in which Terry L. Hunt concludes that rats, not humans, were the main cause of the island's deforestation. We strongly believe that the archaeological and botanical data do point clearly to a scenario of human overexploitation of resources.
Click here to read the letter and a response.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Rethinking Rapa Nui's past
Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
New evidence points to an alternative explanation for a civilization's collapse
Terry L. Hunt
American Scientist
September-October 2006
Every year, thousands of tourists from around the world take a long flight across the South Pacific to see the famous stone statues of Easter Island. Since 1722, when the first Europeans arrived, these megalithic figures, or moai, have intrigued visitors. Interest in how these artifacts were built and moved led to another puzzling question: What happened to the people who created them?
Click here to read the full article.
More about this article at the below referenced blog:
Attack Of The Easter Island Rats
posted by beajerry
Cosmic Watercooler
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
But that rats were the main cause of deforestation?
Click here to read the full post.
New evidence points to an alternative explanation for a civilization's collapse
Terry L. Hunt
American Scientist
September-October 2006
Every year, thousands of tourists from around the world take a long flight across the South Pacific to see the famous stone statues of Easter Island. Since 1722, when the first Europeans arrived, these megalithic figures, or moai, have intrigued visitors. Interest in how these artifacts were built and moved led to another puzzling question: What happened to the people who created them?
Click here to read the full article.
More about this article at the below referenced blog:
Attack Of The Easter Island Rats
posted by beajerry
Cosmic Watercooler
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
But that rats were the main cause of deforestation?
Click here to read the full post.
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