Click above to listen to part 3 of Headed For Trouble, featuring Carl Lipo, Anthropologist and professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, explaining how the “collapse” theory of the decline of civilization on Easter Island has no basis, and that the Rapa Nui were a thriving people until explorers arrived with their diseases.
Headed for Trouble:
Part 1: Seth Goes to Easter Island
Part 2: Sarah Parcak / Space Archaeology
Part 3: Carl Lipo / No Such Collapse
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