Moai on Rapa Nui,
also known as Easter Island
Image courtesy of All
Canada Photos / Alamy Stock Photo
Joel Kontinen
A decades-long
stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural
changes among the Rapa Nui people that reduced time spent building statues, but
not all archaeologists agree.
According to the
book of Genesis, people had successfully built towns and things like that. Now,
however, some evolutionists are claiming climate change has led to the demise of Easter Islands culture,
of building sculptures.
A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest
fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments. But some
archaeologists dispute this interpretation.
The island of Rapa Nui has become central to a
cautionary tale of disaster caused by unsustainable use of resources. The standard narrative is that the arrival of the
first Polynesians on the tiny island in the 1200s led to rapid
deforestation.
Source:
James Dinneen 2025 Easter Island: Drought may have sped the demise of Rapa Nui sculpture culture | New Scientist 15 April
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