By Ronald A. Reis
Easter Island is a real land of poser. essentially the most remotely inhabited locations on the earth, this 64-square-mile speck within the South Pacific is greater than 1,000 miles from at any place else, but Polynesian voyagers controlled to settle Easter Island 1000 years in the past. not anyone is aware why the Moai, approximately one thousand megalithic volcanic statues, have been carved, transported, and erected--or why they have been all came upon facedown via eu explorers. additionally, did a Stone Age inhabitants of below 10,000 really deforest the land, inflicting environmental devastation? there have been as many as sixteen million Chilean hands protecting 70 percentage of the island whilst the settlers first seemed, yet Westerners within the early 18th century have been astonished by means of the entire absence of timber. additionally, the islanders followed a brand new cult in keeping with the worship of birds and within the method, every year elected a "sacred birdman" in a contest which can were the main risky of its variety at any place on the planet. notwithstanding the island is among the so much studied and probed locations on the earth, Easter Island continues to be some of the most mysterious areas on the earth. learn during this new identify approximately this attention-grabbing position.
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For whatever their reasons, the evidence seems clear that Easter Islanders, too, chose, at least at limited times, to eat human flesh. Essentially, there are two kinds of cannibalism. There is exocannibalism, where one eats enemies, slaves, or victims captured in warfare. Endocannibalism pertains to the eating of relatives. On a simple level, exocannibalism is often a part of revenge taking, status enhancement, or the seeking of spiritual protection. The ingesting of one’s victim to gain their spiritual mana was not, however, at least in Polynesia, widespread, but was limited to certain chiefs in a ritual setting.
All this about the Long Ears and the Short Ears, and the “ultimate” battle between the two island peoples, is legend, and weak legend at that. Such an encounter may never have taken place. That civil war ensued as a result of resource deprivation, however, is well accepted. indd 47 10/13/11 11:53 AM 48 EASTER ISLAND Easter Island was once covered with trees, but a combination of variables resulted in deforestation. Wood became scarce on the island, and without the protection of tree cover, the land could no longer sustain agriculture.
The whole mountain massif has been reshaped, the volcano has been greedily cut up as if it were pastry, although sparks fly when a steel ax is driven against the rock to test its strength. Hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of rock have been cut out and tens of thousands of tons of stone carried away. And in the midst of the mountain’s gaping wound lie more than a hundred and fifty gigantic stone men, in all stages from the just begun to the just completed. At the foot of the mountain stand finished stone men side by side like a supernatural army.