archaeology

1) What was the original environment like on Easter Island?  How do we know what it was like?

2) What did the diet of ancient Easter Islanders consist of?  How was this different than the typical Polynesian diet?

3) How and why did the environment of Easter Island begin to deteriorate?  As the environment became less productive what previously unimportant food resource became more and more important for the Easter Islanders? 

4) What lessons cane we take from what happened on Easter Island and apply to the modern world?