Easter Island, ping. A few typos.
‘‘Initially, the Polynesians built the moai out of various types of local stone, including the Puna Pau scoria, but between 12000 to 13000 AD Puna Pau switched from producing statues to hats.’
Sometime in the future?
Al Gore has suggested the reason for the extermination of the Easter Island civilization was due to over-harvesting the palm trees, leading to one factor after another until the civilization died out.
Today’s 8.8 quake in Chile and tsunami warning in Hawaii, led me to ponder if perhaps the destruction of such remote Pacific island cultures might not be more easily explained by remote seismic activity, consequent tsunami, and washing away of the flotsam.