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Easter Island inhabitants collected freshwater from the ocean's edge in order to survive
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| October 9, 2018
| Binghamton University
Posted on 10/12/2018 12:24:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo. Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York
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posted on
10/12/2018 12:24:40 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Interesting, but not much to connect statue construction with this practice, which btw has completely died out (assuming it had ever been done in the first place).
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posted on
10/12/2018 12:26:07 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Pet rocks... Named Larry, Moe, and Curly
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posted on
10/12/2018 12:29:49 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
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To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting post. These guys need to next show several practical methods of collecting this brackish water.
(Nice to see research with no obvious political agenda, too.)
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posted on
10/12/2018 1:48:07 AM PDT
by
oldplayer
To: SunkenCiv
A visit to Easter Island is near the top of my Bucket List.
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posted on
10/12/2018 4:30:08 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s using their heads.
To: BigEdLB
manny, moe, and jack you mean
To: SunkenCiv
Easter Island (per wikipedia) was settled around 1200 AD. If the world was warmer during the Medieval Warm Period, that would have meant more evaporation, and more rain.
If, during the Little Ice Age, things got cooler, then that would have meant less rain.
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posted on
10/12/2018 5:07:05 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: Gay State Conservative
A visit to Easter Island is near the top of my Bucket List.Really? Its a miserable place. The locals are horribly interbred, high alcoholism rates, and they are prone to fights with one another. No beaches, not much sport fishing, one "hotel". There is a reason you don't see any ads for tourist visits to this place.
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posted on
10/12/2018 5:07:58 AM PDT
by
corkoman
To: Gay State Conservative
A visit to Easter Island is near the top of my Bucket List.
Don't go during Easter break, it's standing room only.......
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posted on
10/12/2018 5:09:17 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(The art of lock picking began during the era of chastity belts.......)
To: Hot Tabasco
Don't go during Easter break, it's standing room only....... Rimshot
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posted on
10/12/2018 5:35:18 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: Gay State Conservative
They seem to know everything about this place except why the locals buried the statues the way they did. Going and looking at them in person isnt going to help you with that.
I would waste my $$ on Guam or Palau instead of Easter Island.
Go SCUBA dive the Saratoga at Bikini Island. THATS A bucket list.
I would refer to Post #10.
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posted on
10/12/2018 6:43:18 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/12/2018 7:22:14 AM PDT
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: BigEdLB
They investigated the use of “subterranean rocks”. Scientific minds would like to know why they ignored a couple others.
How about “aerial rocks”? Another obvious source would be ‘imaginary rocks”.
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posted on
10/12/2018 7:28:09 AM PDT
by
IgnaciKat
('m)
To: PapaBear3625
And slightly higher water levels, as was the case in England and throughout Europe.
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posted on
10/12/2018 11:31:38 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: IgnaciKat
Waters’ Rocks, in Maxine’s head.
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posted on
10/12/2018 11:39:42 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
To: nicollo
Y'know, that would make a great standalone topic (or for that matter, maybe it already has, and I've missed it, or more likely forgotten about it). Regardless, very good catch, I'm corroded with jealousy that I didn't think of it. :^)
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10/12/2018 11:41:59 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Larry Lucido; Hot Tabasco; Gay State Conservative
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posted on
10/12/2018 11:53:35 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: oldplayer
I also wonder about the family feud period on the island, when the population was split into small groups and lived in hidden caves they controlled -- was that related to water collection as well? And drinking water is some fraction of the total water needs, there's also agricultural water needs, even in societies supposedly not reliant on any irrigation (all ag societies use it to some degree).
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posted on
10/12/2018 11:56:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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