Why is Easter Island Called Easter Island

It also found traces of a civilization that was once very advanced: script, sculptures, art, dancing, woodcarvings, and so on. It was called Easter Island (paaseiland obviously). The Easter Island is situated 2000 leagues off the South American coastline, 1. 250 leagues from the closest inhabitable country. 150km2 and on the summit between 7000 and 10.

As there were indications of an advancing civilization, but today's humans were barbarian, many humanists were interested in this island There were over 600 sculptures, most of them over 20 ft high, set up on the water. There was agreement that today's world could not produce or transport these sculptures, called Maoi.

Others said Easter Island was a relic of a continental land that had disappeared into the sea, others thought Inca' s were visiting the island because the island's arts were similar to the Inca. The most recent research shows that the first humans were probably Polynesians who found the island in 400 AD.

During this period, the Polynesian spread all over the whole know. Probably the first Easter Island colonists were only a boat with about 30 persons. There was no freshwater springs on the island and almost no game. Settingtlers had only hens, and the kind of nourishment they cultured on the land would not increase here. They were limited to eat chicken and sweets.

Their''temples'' were called'ahu', which were essentially large rock plateaus on which they prayed and buried their deaths;'What distinguished Easter Island civilization from all other Polish settlements was that they had much free space to spend on ceremony activity, leading to the most progressive Polish civilization and one of the most progressive civilizations in the hemisphere in comparison to the very small amount of them.

More than 300'ahu' were constructed, mainly on the banks, and around these places they constructed the Meoi, the sculptures that still exist today. Several of these pages were filled with astronomic and other .evidence that, at least some of them, were very sophisticated. They were made only with stoneware (they had no other means to make tools), which was not hard, but it took a while.

It was a difficult part to move the sculptures and to erect them without beasts of burden everything had to be done by human hands. You move them by felling and rolling them.

Meanwhile, in 1550, they were at their height, about 7000 persons lived on Easter Island. The clan was many and the competition was greater than ever. They all built hoo and sculptures. Then at the height of their company and civilization, everything ceased. More than half of the sculptures were not finished in the stone mines.

Rogergeveen did not find any tree when he found Easter Island, and when the Polynesians found the island, it had many forests and tree species. From 1500 they ran out of timber, they had to leave their buildings and lived in cave.

The Qaurrie were on the beach and they could no longer move their sculptures. Angling became more difficult because trawls were made out of saplings. It was not only the humans themselves who were affected. As there were no more plants, there was excessive soil degradation and harvest yield decreased.

PeopIe began to steal them and the clan tried to defend their hens with stony hen-housings. They tore down a statue. When Europeans found this savage civilisation there, they asked themselves how they had been moving the sculptures the primitive nation had forgot and the Europeans, who had not seen any tree, asked themselves how they had made them.

Osterinsulaner had developed a high culture on a very small island, but went too far. You must have seen it, because the island could be circumnavigated in one was. Actually, when the timber was exhausted, they carved MORE sculptures in a frantic effort to gain fame and glory.

Anything that' happen to Easter Island could happen to the world. Do we become too complicated and progressive? Like the Polynesians on Easter Island, we can't get away.