A new study challenges the idea that Rapa Nui islanders caused an ‘ecocide’
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Rapa Niu islanders farmed and fished enough to feed only a few thousand people, too few to decimate society before Europeans arrived, researchers contend.
  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I thought they attributed their decline due to the introduction of rats from colonial ships. Rats ate a bunch of seeds etc. and did what invasive vertebrates do on island: destroy the ecosystem.