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Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light On Ancient Mystery (Easter Island)
Rochester Instityute Of Technology ^ | 8-31-2005 | Will Dube

Posted on 09/19/2005 4:36:30 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

Healthcare?


41 posted on 09/19/2005 7:28:39 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Calvin Locke

Red Tide sounds like a very realistic and reasonable theory.


42 posted on 09/19/2005 7:29:41 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
Thanks Blam, although I regard this study as just another Malthusian wet-dream. Heyerdahl took an anthropological approach and followed that with an archaeological one. Of course, all of that is pooh-poohed by the most recent excavator. Heyerdahl's "Aku-Aku" tells the story as it was known in the 1950s.

One of the frustrations is, a Spanish expedition set out to find Easter Island based on information gathered from mainlanders (and that should make one wonder, how did they know if there was no going to and fro?) but the titular head of the expedition couldn't get the captain of the vessel to follow the directions given, as the captain believed they would sail off into nowhere and die horribly. Had they not diverged, odds are they would have arrived on Easter Island while the statues were still being built.

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43 posted on 09/19/2005 8:34:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: Rudder

lol


44 posted on 09/19/2005 8:49:17 PM PDT by Peace Is Coming
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To: Travis McGee
Easter Island went straight to hell after they found out how to open the hatch leading straight down into the Lost Well of Doom.

how do you know of these things?

45 posted on 09/19/2005 9:08:31 PM PDT by timestax
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46 posted on 09/19/2005 9:20:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: timestax

Watch "Lost" wednesday night, and we'll both find out.


47 posted on 09/19/2005 9:31:04 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: timestax

Thanks for the ping!


48 posted on 09/19/2005 9:41:11 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: blam
Imagine a society almost wiped out because they were too proud to eat sushi.
49 posted on 09/19/2005 9:47:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: spanalot

"He lived on the coconuts!"

Must have had *really* strong hands.


50 posted on 09/19/2005 11:27:24 PM PDT by dsc
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To: Bratch

Any chance of getting a (much) larger version of that cover graphic?


51 posted on 09/19/2005 11:28:14 PM PDT by dsc
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To: SunkenCiv
Have you read any of the Brian M. Fagan books? Are they any good? Which one would you recommend first?
52 posted on 09/20/2005 3:13:05 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: dsc

I too was thinking of that and assumed he had a knife or such - but then how to explain ancient coconut tree mariners?

Is it possible that the tree roots would have dislodged soil and rock - which could feasibly be used to (eventually) scrape away the husk?


53 posted on 09/20/2005 5:45:06 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot

I'd hate to be tasked with not dropping a rock for days and days while clinging to a palm tree.


54 posted on 09/20/2005 5:58:42 AM PDT by dsc
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“The reasons behind the Easter Island population crash are complex but do stem from the fact that the inhabitants eventually ran out of finite resources, including food and building materials, causing a massive famine and the collapse of their society,” Basener says. “Unfortunately, none of the current mathematical models used to study population development predict this sort of growth and quick decay in human communities.”

They probably just became infested with Dims.

55 posted on 09/20/2005 9:48:32 AM PDT by 4CJ
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To: blam

Hari Seldon would be (will have been?) proud.


56 posted on 09/20/2005 12:27:35 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket ("I don't care what you do, just DON'T throw me into the Breyer patch!" ~John "Brer" Roberts)
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To: blam
famine and the collapse of their society,”

This, I believe, led to cannibalism.

57 posted on 09/20/2005 12:36:45 PM PDT by scouse
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To: blam
During this time, inhabitants used large boats for fishing and navigation, constructed numerous buildings and built many of the large statues, known as Tiki Gods, for which the island is now best known.

I know the Tiki Gods are still there, and buildings leave traces, but how do they know about the large boats, and were the boats used to get folks off the island during hard times?

58 posted on 09/20/2005 12:55:25 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
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To: dsc
Best I can do this morning.


59 posted on 09/21/2005 2:18:05 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Looks like the Internet demons are possessing your snap.


60 posted on 09/21/2005 2:24:04 AM PDT by dsc
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