PSY435H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Jacob Roggeveen, Easter Island, David Steadman
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We can share their fate: the polynesian society on easter island is filled with mystery, david steadman, a paleontologist, is carrying out the first systematic excavation on. Easter island to identify the animals and plants that were one present: when first discovered by jacob roggeveen, it was believed to be a wasteland due to the barrenness of the grassland. 2,000 people on the island, it seems illogical: the reconstruction of the history has sought to solve some mysteries. The people on the island, as determined by their dialect and radiocarbon dating, have shown the earliest settlers to be at around 400 ad. The population estimates range from 7,000 to 20,000: for at least 30,000 years before human arrival on the island, it was not a wasteland, as determined by pollen analysis. It was a subtropical forest of trees and woody bushes: many plants and tree species were then initially present at first colonization of the island.
