ENV 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecotone, Triple Bottom Line, Population Momentum
16 Apr 2018
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Easter island: popular and well-studied example of environmental collapse. The moai: isolated, the rapa nui developed a distinct architectural and artistic culture: 2000 people with bleak, treeless landscape, covered with hundreds of gigantic statues (moai, average 4 m tall and 14+ tons) Easter island"s silent stone figures are likely a monument to the seafaring skills and unique culture: evidence of sophisticated society, but inhabitants had no boats, few tools and no visible means of creating these enormous moai. Research shows 6,000-30,000 people, and that the island was covered in lush forest when humans first arrived collapsed to 2000 people. Walking moai: the forests were cleared over several centuries. It is suspected that this was in large part to create infrastructure to build, transport and erect the. Moai or did they walk: that culture reached its zenith during the 10th and 16th centuries, when the rapa nui carved and erected some 900 moai across the island.
