On Easter Day 1722, Europeans landed for the first time on Easter Island, the grassy island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with its strange, mysterious stone sculptures. Ever since then, the island’s culture and history have eluded us and in Vetenskapsradion Historia Tobias Svanelid talks with archaeologist Helene Martinsson Wallin about what the Europeans’ meeting with the people of Easter meant to the island, how the island became a symbol of human environmental degradation and the collapse of civilizations and how the island was really populated – Thor Heyerdahl right in his theories about South American connections to Easter Island?
Source: ICELAND NEWS