[ExI] New Easter Island Documentary (2024)

[Keith Henson]

Before the Europeans got there, the population had fallen from around
20,000 to under 2000.  Classic overshoot, some as the reindeer.  No
mystery that I see.

Keith

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:42 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> >---------------------------------------
>
>
> 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
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