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Why Did Easter Island's Civilization Collapse?

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The Theory of the Moai

Carl Lipo or Lipo of a Cal State Long Beach. Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii. They said if they had broader shoulder, I'm sorry, broader bases than shoulders and it wasn't exactly flat on the bottom, you could actually walk them. So that is a theory. There's this other guy that we're going to talk about a little bit later who has some theories that just smack diamond right in the face.

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