New evidence: Easter Island civilization was not destroyed by war | Ars Technica
▻http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/new-evidence-easter-island-civilization-was-not-destroyed-by-war
For centuries, observers believed that the Rapa Nui suffered a catastrophic population crash. But there is no scientific evidence to support this idea, say a group of researchers in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity. That story about environmental collapse and warfare you read about in Jared Diamond’s bestseller #Collapse? Totally wrong.