![]() ![]() Here's their argument: Professors Hunt and Lipo say fossil hunters and paleobotanists have found no hard evidence that the first Polynesian settlers set fire to the forest to clear land - what's called "large scale prehistoric farming." The trees did die, no question. Well, I've taken a look at their book, The Statues That Walked, and oddly enough they've got a case, although I'll say in advance what they call "success" strikes me as just as scary - maybe scarier. Success? How could anyone call what happened on Easter Island a "success?" They say, "Rather than a case of abject failure," what happened to the people on Easter Island "is an unlikely story of success." It comes from two anthropologists, Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, from the University of Hawaii. OK, that's the story we all know, the Collapse story. When Captain Cook saw them, many of these "moai" had been toppled and lay face down, in abject defeat. ![]() ![]() The statues faced not outward, not to the sea, but inward, toward the now empty, denuded landscape. And yet, puzzlingly, these same people had managed to carve enormous statues - almost a thousand of them, with giant, hollow-eyed, gaunt faces, some weighing 75 tons. ![]()
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