Do People Live on Easter Island

Old Easter Island civilization didn't murder each other, study of spear heads shows statuary of meoi.

According to a recent research, the old civilisation that lived on Easter Island was not wiped out by war, in contrast to what some scientists believe. University of Binghamton scientists analysed spear-like observidian swords dispersed across the island. The Mata' a were not used for force, as the forms are not consistent and differ from other restored weaponry.

Mata' a were more of a general-purpose tool, according to the survey. "When you look at the form of these things, we found they just don't look like weapons," said Carl Lipo, anthropologist at Binghamton University, in a declaration. Rapa Nui's time-honoured theories, which have lived on the island for centuries, are that they ran out of the island's natural resource, which led to a battle that led to its sinking.

One of the things that supports this theorem is the thousand of obsidians, the triangle-like shapes found on the surfaces, known as mata'a. Because of their large number and the fact that they are made of clear crystal, many thought they were arms of battle. But Lipo found that the Mata' a were different from other conventional weaponry, and his crew noticed that they had been made into bad-arms.

"If they can be compared to those found all over the globe, if there are actually items used for war, they are very well-formed. Easter Islanders kill each other is actually a belated reinterpretation of the note in Europe, and it is not a real archeological occurrence.

Then Lipo said that the concept that the people of Easter Island would kill each other before the Europeans came was actually a belated reinterpretation of the recording, and it was not a real archeological one. "It is not the case in the prehistoric context that people think of the island as an island of disaster and breakdown.

The population was thriving and living on the island until they came into touch with Europe," he said. Mata' a, he said, are actually agricultural and cultivating instruments. In 1722 the Europeans came to the isolated island in the South Pacific, where at that point only about 2,000 to 3,000 people were living.

By 1877, the number of people suffering from illnesses in Europe and Peru was reduced to 111. Today, the island is an area of Chile and has 5,800 inhabitants, of which about 60 per cent are descendents of Rapa Nui. It is thought that the Rapa Nui established themselves on Easter Island, which comes from other Polyynesian Isles, between 700 and 1100 AD.