{"id":17819,"date":"2015-01-12T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/debate-over-puzzling-demise-of-easter-island-population-may-finally-be-over\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:44:17","slug":"debate-over-puzzling-demise-of-easter-island-population-may-finally-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/debate-over-puzzling-demise-of-easter-island-population-may-finally-be-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Debate Over Puzzling Demise Of Easter Island Population May Finally Be Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <em>really<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some researchers have argued that a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Rapa Nui, as a islanders were known, died out after regulating adult a healthy resources<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">diseases and pestilence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But new investigate suggests another possibility: that oppressive environmental conditions on a island&#8211;from variations in rainfall to disappearing dirt quality&#8211;caused a decline, though not a collapse, in a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">native race before a Europeans arrived<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The formula of a investigate were unequivocally utterly startling to me,&#8221; Dr. Thegn Ladefoged, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">professor of anthropology during a University of Auckland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers analyzed and antiquated 428 obsidian collection and flakes of obsidian stone found during several archaeological sites on a island. By dating a collection and rocks, a researchers were means to establish when and how a ancient Rapa Nui race used land and healthy resources in opposite tools of a island.<\/p>\n<p>What did a researchers find? Land use and resources sundry opposite a island, moreso reflecting environmental constraints than an abuse of a environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we do not have approach race data, it is transparent that people were reacting to informal environmental movement on a island before they were ravaged by a introduction of European diseases and other ancestral processes,&#8221; Ladefoged said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers note in their paper that their work could be useful in a investigate of other antiquated societies that gifted remarkable collapses.<\/p>\n<p>The paper was published online in a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Proceedings of a National Academy of Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/10\/easter-island-population-demise_n_6423410.html?utm_hp_ref=hawaii&amp;ir=Hawaii<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What really Some researchers have argued that a Rapa Nui, as a islanders were known, died out after regulating adult a healthy resourcesdiseases and pestilence But new investigate suggests another possibility: that oppressive environmental conditions on a island&#8211;from variations in rainfall to disappearing dirt quality&#8211;caused a decline, though not a collapse, in a native race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-17819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}