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Science 21 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5845, pp. 1692 - 1694
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138442
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Easter Island Revisited

Jared Diamond

New information about Easter Island is helping to identify the cause of the massive deforestation that occurred prior to European arrival, but unanswered questions remain.

The author is in the Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA. E-mail: jdiamond{at}geog.ucla.edu

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