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BrownTown3

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Describe the ecosystemic collapse of Easter Island after settlement by seafaring Polynesians about 800 years ago.
 
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The focus of anthropology is very narrow and has only two subfields.
 
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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Polynesian seafarers settled, lands were deforested, rats brought by the colonizers overran the fragile ecosystem, the lands lost their productivity, climate change brought problems, and then Dutch settlers landed and introduced disease.

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False


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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