6. Easter Island - Where Giants Walked

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SUPPORT THE SHOW AND WATCH AD-FREE: http://patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast On one of the world’s most isolated islands, hundreds of vast stone statues lie mouldering in the grass. In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles: the mystery of Easter Island. Find out how this unique community grew up in complete isolation, severed from the rest of the world by a vast expanse of ocean. Discover the incredible story of how it survived for so many centuries, and examine the evidence about what happened to finally bring this society, and its statues, crashing down. This episode, we're joined by children from the Toki School of Music and Arts on Rapa Nui, who were kind enough to record some traditional ancestral chants especially for the podcast. Since 2012, Toki has offered children & adolescents free classes in classical and traditional music, with the aim of keeping the traditions of the island alive. It's an incredible project, and if you want to help keep it running, you can donate here: https://tokirapanui.org/en/ ** Fall of Civilizations the book is now available to pre-order: linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations ** Support Fall of Civilizations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Jake Barrett-Mills Jacob Rollinson Annie Kelly Shem Jacobs Footage of Rapa Iti by Normand Schafer of Far and Away Adventures: FarAndAwayAdventures.com Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/ Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/ SOURCES: Bahn, Paul, and John Flenley. Easter Island, Earth Island. United Kingdom, Thames and Hudson, 1992. Barthel, Thomas S. The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island. Trans. Trans. Anneliese Martin. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1978. Behrens, Carl Friedrich. ‘Another Narrative of Jacob Roggeveen’s V