![]() ![]() ![]() The authors suggest this warrants a rethinking of the popular narrative that the island was destitute when Europeans arrived in 1722. In a new paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the researchers offer intriguing evidence that suggests the people of Rapa Nui continued to thrive well after 1600. It's a narrative that is now being challenged by a team of researchers who have been studying the island's archaeology and cultural history for many years now. Diamond essentially argued that the destruction of the island's ecological environment triggered a downward spiral of internal warfare, population decline, and cannibalism, resulting in an eventual breakdown of social and political structures. In his bestselling 2005 book Collapse, Jared Diamond offered the societal collapse of Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui), around 1600, as a cautionary tale. De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images reader comments 68 with ![]()
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