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Easter Island’s downfall from pristine to cannibalized island
Archaeologists trace Easter Island’s collapse from a subtropical forest landscape to a devastated habitat by 1500. Pollen shifts, charcoal layers, and bones show forest destruction, proxy seabird and porpoise depletion, islander cannibalism, and a population crash by 1700. The piece links this history to modern fears of global resource exhaustion and warns against repeating such patterns.
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Easter Island
Pacific Ocean
South America
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Pitcairn
Johni Fienley
Y Dhivensiy i
New Zealand
Sarah Kirig
University of Tull
England
Alban
Museum of Natur
Haeler
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Haster
Dolphin
Easter