What is Easter Island

Today the island's residents all have chilenic origins, which makes it even more difficult to solve the puzzles. There' s no one to ask about the first humans on Easter Island. Thor Heyerdahl, the world-famous discoverer, showed in the 1950' that it was possible to sail across the open sea from South America to Easter Island.

Many other scholars believed that the Polyynesian sailors made such a great voyage. But only recently did it provide conclusive data on the origin of the first islanders. Hagelberg has investigated the genetic material of the Easter Island skeleton. Coming to the island from the western and not from the eastern, a voyage that represented the farthest outskirts of Polish history.

"The carbon dated artifacts on Easter Island shows that the Polynesians arrived around 700 AD. They seem to have been living in isolation for the next thousand years on an island of 22x11 km, about the dimensions of Jersey. Societies thrived with a rich life of seals and agriculture to support a burgeoning populace of up to 12,000 in number.

Since 1722, the mai have fascinated everyone who has seen them. However, how did an allegedly Stone Age company make, move and reed? The sculptures supervised the tribe, part of a Polynesian ancestral cult, but to an extent that cannot be seen anywhere else.

They tore down the mai. Legend speaks of a period of need, terrorism and cannibalism. What do you mean? Among the archeological testimonies are woodcarvings of exhausted humans and the look of a new device - spearheads. Describing the men of that period as "at risk of losing themselves". It seems that the island's birds have vanished, as has proof of the consumption of porpoises and tunas.

These woodcarvings were made by hungry men. But in 1722 the Dutch described a treeless island. For the production of boats, the company depended on timber. They' still felling it' Making Mai must have used a large number of saplings. During this period the sculptures became more and more complex, which must have exhausted the woods ever faster.

It is Flenley's belief that Easter Island is an astonishing example of complete desertification triggered by possession. Caught in a hell of their own making, the islanders turned against each other. However, if a violence, even cannibalism, had developed in the 1600' s, why did the Dutch in 1722 reported sweet potato plantations and healthful, fittish mates?

Whatever the winning strain got the first call about the dwindling island population. "The true murderer of the Easter Islanders came across the sea. In 1722 it became fashion for discoverers to come to Easter Island and bring their own ailments. The syphilis occurs for the first case in the bone of the natives.

However, the last strike came in 1862, when slavers from Peru arrived and took 1,500 men, a third of the country's total crowd. All but 15 were killed within a year of being shipped to South America. The islanders did not know what they had come back with. What were the chances of the birders?

Comments by Jo Anne van Tilburg on her history are a victory over the adversities, a tribute to the people. Easter Island's secret is also a tale of horrible foolishness.