After a long journey, a group of settlers sets foot on an otherwise empty land. A vast expanse separates them from other human beings, cutting off any.
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After a long journey, a group of settlers sets foot on an otherwise empty land. A vast expanse separates them from other human beings, cutting off any possibility of outside contact. Their choices will make the difference between survival and death.
The people of Easter Island may have something to teach future Martian colonists.
Binghamton University anthropologists Carl Lipo and Robert DiNapoli explore how complex community patterns in Rapa Nui the indigenous name for both the island and its people helped the isolated island survive from its settlement in the 12th to 13th century until European contact.
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Ancient Easter Island clans may teach us how to live in perfect isolation on Mars
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Moai at Rano Raraku – Easter Island. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the native language, is a tiny speck of land smack in the middle of the South Pacific. For millions of years, the island was only inhabited by sea birds and dragonflies until a weary group of Polynesian seafarers perhaps a single-family disembarked from their double-hulled canoe on the island at around the year 1200 C.E.