What Caused Deforestation On Easter Island?
What Caused Deforestation On Easter Island? ABSTRACT. Easter Island deforestation has traditionally been viewed as an abrupt island-wide event caused by the prehistoric Rapanui civilization, which precipitated its own cultural collapse. What destroyed Easter Island? In this story, made popular by geographer Jared Diamond’s bestselling book Collapse, the Indigenous people of the island, the Rapanui,