[ExI] New Easter Island Documentary (2024)

[Keith Henson]

Diamonds analysis just makes sense.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2003-11-22/st-matthew-island-overshoot-collapse/

Humans without relatively high-tech birth control are no better than reindeer.

As for genes from South America, that would be expected given that the
population was shipped off to SA as slaves for a generation or so
before they were shipped back.

When the island was first visited by Europeans they had no boats to
make an ocean crossing.

Keith

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 5:47 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 02:35, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> I haven’t seen that documentary, but recall years ago many anthropologists and the like who had expertise in Rapa Nuhi and Polynesia in general strongly disagreed with Diamond’s views. This was around the time his book Collapse came out. There was even a popular level book taking on this example that I read. In other words, this should come as no shock.
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>> Regards,  Dan
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> The video runs for almost an hour and provides much evidence for their conclusions.
> I have run a summarize program on the very long video transcript.
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> BillK
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> Summary -
> The documentary explores the history and culture of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. It challenges the common narrative of the island's collapse and instead presents evidence of a thriving and sustainable society.
> The key points are:- The moai statues, while iconic, are only a small part of the island's rich archaeological and cultural heritage.
> Rapa Nui experts are reclaiming the island's history and challenging Western misconceptions.
> - Genetic analysis reveals that the original Rapa Nui settlers had Polynesian ancestry mixed with some influence from ancient South America, suggesting early contact between the two regions.
> - The island's landscape and resources were used ingeniously by the Rapa Nui people, with no evidence of a societal collapse.
> - The location of the moai and ahu platforms were strategically placed near vital resources like freshwater.
> - The introduction of disease and the impact of colonization were the main factors that led to the decline of the Rapa Nui population, not an environmental catastrophe caused by the islanders themselves.
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