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Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
- Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
- From: Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 06:31:35 -0700
Tue, 03 Sep 2002 20:47:20 -0400
George Scithers :
> Seems far more likely that the Easter Islanders are of Polynesian
> ancestry -- they wound up on an island with not enough trees for them to
> go into shipbuilding again, and so were trapped there.
The way I heard it, they stranded themselves by using up the trees in
building the statues.
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle