Easter Island Trees
The Easter Island TreesIs Easter Island not victims of'Ecozid',' analyzing the remnants shows
Analyzing the remnants found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides proof against the widespread believe that antique civilisation has ruthlessly damaged its surroundings, according to new research carried out by the Binghamton University Department, State University of New York". "Traditionally, Rapa Nui's humans have used up their natural resource and ran out of meals over time," said Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University.
"Some of the ressources they allegedly used were trees that grew on the island. These trees provided boats and could no longer go fishing due to a shortage of boats. They began to depend more and more on country feeding. Deprived of agricultural produce, agricultural production declined due to ground degradation, leading to harvest failure.... To paint the image of such a disaster.
" Lippo and a research group analysed traces of humans, animals and botany from the archeological places Anakena and Ahu Tepeu on the island of Rape Nui, which date back to around 1400 AD, as well as contemporary references. Using analysis of carbohydrates and nitric isotopes and compounds pecific isotopes of carbohydrates extracted from fossil bones from humans and fauna, the research group evaluated the use of maritime and land-based ressources and investigated the underpinnings.
Comparable isotopic analysis of archeological and contemporary botanic and naval specimens were used to characterise the area. The results of independent analysis of hydrocarbons and nitrates show that about half of the proteins in human diet come from the ocean, significantly higher than known. The results indicate that there has been a joint effort to tamper with arable land and that the pre-historic Rapa Nui people have had comprehensive information about overcoming bad land productivity, improving the natural habitat and creating a viable agrifood.
"We' ve found that over the years there is a fairly significant seafood diets and that humans eat seafood, and it was not as if they only had nourishment from land-based resources," Lipo said. "They also learnt that what they got from the land ressources came from very changed soil, that they enriched the soil to cultivate the harvests.
This underpins the point we made in our earlier work that these humans have developed an inspired approach to enrich the land by add basement to the top and bottom of the ground to fertilize their population, and that deforestation really is not a disaster, as described above.
Lippo said that these new insights continued to reinforce the notion that Easter Island's history is more interesting and complicated than expected. "He said, "The Rape Nui were, not unexpectedly, wise in their use of natural comforts. "Diet of the prehistoric population made up of the pre-historic inhabitants of Rafa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) shows a series of papers" wurde im American Journal of Physical Anthropology veröffentlicht.