[Bon mots]

Jared Diamond wrote a piece on what actually happened on Easter Island and what the stone figures meant.

[bluefish]

So um, what did they mean? I always thought they were a navigation system for space aliens or something, LOL.

[timer]

He also showed how the noah flood story was a jazzed up myth about a true incident : surviving a hurricane by being washed out to sea on a raft.

[blam]

"Jared Diamond wrote a piece on what actually happened on Easter Island and what the stone figures meant."

Nah. Jared wrote what he thought happened.

[Question_Assumptions]

From what I understand, there are other newer interpretations that dispute what Jared Diamond and others have speculated. In particular, there was an article posted her recently that suggests that rats, not people, were responsible for the loss of trees on the island.