easter island

In "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, the author postulates that the Easter Islanders' deforestation of their island caused their societal collapse. He claims that the construction of the moai statues required large amounts of lumber and may have contributed to the collapse. Other historians think...

Rapa Nui from Easter Island succesfully settle the Galapágos Islands and the Juan Fernandez Islands, what happens? How does contact between the Native Americans of mainland South America and the Polynesians go? What happens when Europeans arrive? What are the Galapagos and Juan Fernandez...

For the past few months I've had an idea floating around in my head where, in a world where Germany wins World War I, an increasingly unstable and nearly bankrupt France deems itself unable to hold onto French Polynesia, and proceeds to sell the islands to Chile in an attempt to raise money...

In 1930, I think you can all guess that shit had hit the fan for Chile and most of the world. But I recently came across this little bit. So Carlos Ibañez del Campo was so bloody desperate about the financial clusterfuck existent in Chile and wanted an easy way out. What happens if the island...

Over at my blog, I write about the profound flaws in Jared Diamond's theory of Easter Island as a casualty of indigenous ecocide. The Rapa Nui were apparently managing their island quite well, dealing with ecological catastophes not of their own making and sustaining a highly complex and...