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4,6/5 very informative and I can’t wait to read more about rapa rui and its cultural heritage

Oh my goodness! Page 42 and Jared's discovered "modern Easter islanders"! He's so smart, someone give this man a tenure!!!

"Of course, we don't know how they were erected for sure, because Europeans never saw it happen. But I guess we COULD ask the locals..." DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR CORNFED MIDWESTERN MIND??

Erich von Däniken mentions: 3

Shut up shut up shut uPPP Jared you are so UNSERIOUS

This book persists in fuelling my rage. You'd be forgiven for thinking that no-one lives on Rapa Nui and that Polynesian culture went extinct in ancient obscurity thanks to this wildly anachronistic (read: racist!!) writing

"Stone platforms called marae were used" ARE used. ARE used, you fuckwit, and a marae is not just a "stone platform"

"Tonga had a trilithon" Tonga HAS. It is STILL THERE

KILL!! KILL!!! KILL!!!

It is astonishing that we are 30 pages into this book without a single mention of the Rapa Nui. You know, the actual name of this island and its people? The people who still live there and who are very much alive? But instead we're going to cite the delusional theories of Erich von fucking Dänichen? Jared I can only salute you for out Diamonding yourself to a whole new level of anthropological racism

"It is hardly an island one would have expected to be discovered and settled before the invention of European sailing ships" ?? Speak for yourself Jared? I think to the Polynesians it's been pretty fucking evident how they discovered and settled it this entire time?