New Study Contests When Easter Island Collapse Happened

The research, which appears in the Journal of Archaeological Science,contests the accepted timeline that the Easter Island society wasalready in decline by the year 1600 and its massive stone statues leftto fall into disrepair. Conducting radiocarbon dating on 11 sites on Easter Island, theauthors determined the timeline of each monument’s construction. Theirfindings indicate that Easter Islanders were still actively building newMoai figures, and maintaining existing ones, up until at lea