Under Easter Island Statues
Beneath Easter Island StatuesThe great divide between Easter Island and any other island has made the historic ists believe that its advent was an incidental and unique one. Against the backdrop of other well-known manifestations of Polyynesian naval art and the various cultures influencing the island's icons, this is a highly controversial notion.
In 1722 the island was formally explored by a Flemish exploration under Admiral Jacob Roggeveen. 1770 a Peruvian Spaniard made a claim on the island for Spain. There seems to have been a dispute on the island four years before the advent of the English sailor Captain James Cook. When he found a depleted, poverty-stricken populace, he realized that the worship of statues seemed to have ended because most of the statues had been torn down.
It is possible that some of the statues were already overthrown before the visitors of the Dutches and Spaniards, but that these yachtsmen did not go to the same places as Cook. In 1786, the Frenchman La PĂ©rouse came to Easter Island and found the people quiet and well-off. This points to a rapid recuperation from any disaster.
At least 20 statues are still in existence, as one of the visitors from Russia said in 1804. Reports from the following years point to another phase of devastation, so that perhaps only a few statues were left a ten-year later. Several of the statues still upstanding at the beginning of the nineteenth centuary were demolished by west European voyages.
Timeline: 1772 - The island was'officially' explored by the Dutch on Easter Sunday. 1864 Residual islanders - 111. Early Americans assisted in the colonization of Easter Island. The South Americans were helping to colonize Easter Island hundreds of years before the Europeans were there. Unambiguous genetics have for the first case supported aspects of this disputed hypothesis, which show that although the isolated island was largely colonized from the western side, some American immigrants did.
The Easter Island is the most eastern island of Polynesia, which extends over the Pacific Ocean. It' also one of the most secluded and populated island in the canyon. So, how did it even get used up? The genetic, archaeological and linguistic evidence shows that Polynesia as a whole has been colonized from Asia, probably from the Taiwanese region.
There are various types of proof that humans began to migrate to the Orient about 5,500 years ago, arrived in Polynesia 2,500 years later and eventually conquered Easter Island after another 1,500 years. By the mid-20th-century he claimed that the celebrated statues of Easter Island were similar to those of Tiahuanaco on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, so that South Americans must have traveled across the Pacific to Polynesia.
He was on his illustrious Kon-Tiki excursion from Peru to the Tuamotu Isles in Polynesia, where he was sailing in a wooden boat. Between 1971 and 2008 he gathered specimens of Easter Islanders whose forebears had not crossed with Europeans and other tourists to the island.
The majority of the islanders' HLA gene tics were polynesic, but some of them also had HLA gene tapestries found only in indigenous Americans. This was crucial before the slavers came in the 1860' and mixed with the islander.