New evidence challenges theories of Rapa Nui collapse

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Dr. Mara Mulrooney, assistant anthropologist at Bishop Museum in Honululu, conducted a six year study on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) concerning the island’s theoretical civilisation collapse. Her findings now challenge previous ideas, which have claimed that the islanders “self-destructed” before Europeans first visited in 1722.

New evidence challenges theories of Rapa Nui collapse

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New evidence contests the popular narrative that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui committed environmental suicide.