Rocks on Rapa Nui tells the story of a small, resilient population – contradicting the idea of a doomed overpopulated island
Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond their means and robbing the island of resources. A new study my colleagues and I conducted has given this idea another blow by using artificial intelligence to analyze satellite data about … Read more