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Green History of the World
Recumbentman Started conversation May 11, 2011
Clive Ponting starts his book 'A Green History of the World' with the story of Easter Island. It is a scary tale; the moral is, civilisation is not a secure thing.
http://www.ecobooks.com/books/history.htm
Green History of the World
daryl watson Posted Jun 9, 2011
People did not cut down all the trees on Easter island Read "1434" Gavin Menzies A tsunami took all the tree around 1460 to 1480 The forces of nature do really big things not men Sincerely posted Daryl
Green History of the World
Recumbentman Posted Jun 10, 2011
I hadn't heard that version.
According to wiki the moai (stone sculpture) period lasted from 1100 to1680 CE.
'It is not yet known how they transported the statues. Possibilities include employing a miro manga erua, a Y-shaped sledge with cross pieces, pulled with ropes made from the tough bark of the hau-hau tree, and tied around the statue's neck.'
--which implies trees still being around in the seventeenth century.
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