via shutterstock.com December 13, 2017 Anthill 20: Myths Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Emily Lindsay Brown, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation, and Will de Freitas, The Conversation CC BY-ND38.2 MB (download) We're pouring cold water on old ideas in this episode: from why the population of Easter Island really declined and what makes a good urban legend.
Randy Schafer / shutterstock October 12, 2017 The truth about Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise Cat Jarman, University of Bristol Recent archaeological evidence shows the remote islanders didn’t commit ‘ecocide’ after all.