Moai on Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island
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A newly recognized drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island, might have spurred islanders to speculate fewer sources in constructing their legendary stone monuments. However some archaeologists dispute this interpretation.
The island of Rapa Nui has turn into central to a cautionary story of catastrophe brought on by unsustainable use of sources. The usual narrative is that the arrival of the primary Polynesians on the tiny island within the 1200s led to rapid deforestation, partly to help the…
