[ExI] New Easter Island Documentary (2024)

[BillK]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 19:06, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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They covered that in the video. They know about the slave traders and
the new genes from Chile, and the smallpox from returned slaves that
reduced the population to a few hundred.
The SA gene link they found was very old, one contact only, from
further north than Chile, before the Polynesians came to Rapa Nuhi.
The gene analysis was quite a long section in the video, because the
present population wanted to know where they originated from.
The video didn't discuss birth control, but they did say the
population never grew to more than a few thousand.
The locals were quite scornful about Europeans talking about the
'mysteries' of Rapa Nuhi because they didn't understand what life
there was like.

BillK