120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man : Krulwich Wonders
The culture was already in a state of decline. I find this text by Jared Diamond on the topic very interesting.
I suspect, though, that the disaster happened not with a bang but with a whimper. After all, there are those hundreds of abandoned statues to consider. The forest the islanders depended on for rollers and rope didn’t simply disappear one day-it vanished slowly, over decades. Perhaps war interrupted the moving teams; perhaps by the time the carvers had finished their work, the last rope snapped. In the meantime, any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would have been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation.
Here’s the full text: Jared Diamond, Easter Island’s End
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