Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)

Re:Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012) by vfc1 on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:24AM (#17539839)

This has been known for many years and it would match with the local legends that literally say that the statues "walked" to their resting places.

It looks like the arrival of Europeans had a lot to do with the quick demise of the Easter Island, by introducing diseases, rats and by enslaving the local population.

This would match what happened on a much larger scale elsewhere, for example in both South and North America.

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Re:Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012) by dethswatch on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:37PM (#17542630)

rats had been there from the start and are a good (imo) explanation for what happened-- the tree and their seeds were preyed upon.

[This explains explains it from an academic standpoint.](https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Collapse-Resilience-Ecolo...)

Saying that they killed all the trees to help the moai get into place (or similar) is ridiculous.

In addition, the first reports from the 1720+ timeframe (first contact and there abouts) estimated the population at a few hundred iirc, no trees, toppled moai.

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