Big Picture Science - Headed For Trouble
The stone heads on Easter Island are an
enduring mystery: why were they built and why were they abandoned and
destroyed? The old ideas about cultural collapse are yielding to new ones
based on careful investigation on the ground - but also from above. What
surprising explanations have we found and are we off base to think that ancient
societies such as the Easter Islanders or the classical Egyptians were, in the
end, failures? Can what we learn from these histories help predict which
societies will survive?
Guests:
- James Grant Peterkin – Tour guide, resident, and British Honorary Consul on Easter Island
- Sarah Parcak – Archaeologist, Egyptologist, remote sensing expert, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Carl Lipo – Anthropologist and professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York
This repeat podcast originally aired on September 30, 2019
Download podcast at - http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/for-good-measure
You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.
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