Archaeology News Network: Easter Island not victim of 'ecocide,' analysis of remains shows.
We also learned that what they did get from terrestrial resources came from very modified soils, that they were enriching the soils in order to grow the crops. That supports the argument we've made in our previous work, that these people came up with am ingenious strategy in enriching the soils by adding bedrock to the surface and inside the soil to crate, essentially, fertilizer to support their populations, and that forest loss really isn't a catastrophe as previously described.
You should also see my eye roll when I read "more interesting and complex than assumed." Science should be suspicious of simplicity.