Did Humans Decimate Easter Island On Arrival?

New Scientist ^ | 3-9-2006 | Bob Holmes

[jrg]

Well that goodness someone settled there, otherwise we would not have any Easter candy

[Kaylee Frye]

But you missed laywers... :)

[RightWhale]

How sure is the idea of intense competition among the tribal groups on the island? Were the starving survivors still trying to compete?

[blam]

"How sure is the idea of intense competition among the tribal groups on the island? Were the starving survivors still trying to compete?"

Indications are that they were...all the way to the point that there weren't enough people left to move the statues.

[RightWhale]

Then the idea that they competed themselves to extinction should be allowed.

Same thing could happen to the whole planet, as those who grew up under the shade of the mushroom cloud already sense as clearly as they sense that something beside speculators is driving the price of oil.

[S0122017]

In the article about all those mummified seals dating out at 1200 AD, it was reported that the supplier slipped in a seal that he'd shot and left out all winter where it mummified. It was also dated at the same 1200 AD. A dating that was obviously erroneous. Then I read this article where things are AGAIN being dated at 1200 AD. And I laugh once again at our "intelligentsia".

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[Stag_Man]

Why ship prisoners many thousands of mile across the ocean when you much more cheaply kill them at home?

[SunkenCiv]

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