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What really happened on Easter Island?

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale

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What really happened on Easter Island?

Michael Marshall·Scientific American·August 2026