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I visited Rapa Nui some years ago. Some of the locals were positively indignant about the "mystery" nonsense from Western archaeologists and rightly so. It remains one of my favourite places in the world.

I wrote up a short piece on new research dealing with Rapa Nui rock gardens and population estimates for Live Science. 🧪🏺 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Easter Island's population never collapsed because it never got that big, researchers suggestwww.livescience.com Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens.

*old school Western archaeologists, of course. I think going to South America was the first time I really grokked the long term impacts of colonialism and just how many times you see signs which say: "This is a copy, the original is in the British Museum" 🫣