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Easter Island's society might not have collapsed
ScienceDaily ^ | August 13, 2018 | Field Museum

Posted on 08/16/2018 1:44:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The first people arrived on Easter Island (or, in the local language, Rapa Nui) about 900 years ago. "The founding population, according to oral tradition, was two canoes led by the island's first chief, Hotu Matu'a," says Simpson, who is currently on the faculty of the College of DuPage... These statues, or moai, often referred to as "Easter Island heads," are actually full-body figures that became partially buried over time. The moai, which represent important Rapa Nui ancestors, number nearly a thousand, and the largest one is over seventy feet tall...

Recent excavations of four statues in the inner region of Rano Raraku, the statue quarry, were conducted by Jo Anne Van Tilburg of Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA and director of the Easter Island Statue Project, along with her Rapa Nui excavation team. To better understand the society that fabricated two of the statues, Simpson, Dussubieux, and Van Tilburg took a detailed look at twenty one of about 1,600 stone tools made of... About half of the tools, called toki, recovered were fragments that suggested how they were used...

There are at least three different sources on Easter Island that the Rapa Nui used for material to make their stone tools... quarries cover twelve thousand square meters, an area the size of two football fields. And those different quarries, the tools that came from them, and the movement between geological locations and archaeological sites shed light on prehistoric Rapa Nui society...

Van Tilburg urges caution in interpreting the study's results. "The near exclusive use of one quarry to produce these seventeen tools supports a view of craft specialization based on information exchange, but we can't know at this stage if the interaction was collaborative. It may also have been coercive in some way.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; easterisland; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; naveloftheworld; rapanui
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1 posted on 08/16/2018 1:44:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Oh, now we rely on local lore?!? Or just cherry pick it? In other articles about this, Jared Diamond was debunked, so those are worth reading as well.

2 posted on 08/16/2018 1:45:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
These statues, or moai, often referred to as "Easter Island heads," are actually full-body figures that became partially buried over time in several hours by a tsunami.

Which also explains exactly how the island's inhabitants 'mysteriously' disappeared .

3 posted on 08/16/2018 1:53:26 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I like the “Lord of the Flies”-like collapse better.


4 posted on 08/16/2018 1:58:40 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm not so sure that Jared Diamond was wrong or debunked as you say. He seems to provide more detail than the other theories and is mostly backed up by archaeological evidence on other societal collapses about which he has written.
5 posted on 08/16/2018 2:02:50 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Last week’s episode of Ancient Aliens was about the connection between the Marquesas and Easter Island. It was pretty interesting, as always.


6 posted on 08/16/2018 2:05:10 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: SunkenCiv

How did they get John Kerry to model for those statues before he was even born? :-P


7 posted on 08/16/2018 2:06:26 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: SunkenCiv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aku-Aku

Where’s Thor Heyerdahl when you need him...


8 posted on 08/16/2018 2:09:53 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: SunkenCiv

Same thing happened on Easter Island as in the Negev Desert in Israel.
Cutting down all the trees to move large stones changed the local climate.
In Israel, the Negev was where they made Chariot Wheels for Egypt.


9 posted on 08/16/2018 2:12:34 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: SunkenCiv

My theory is that they introduced liberalism to their society and smugged themselves out of existence.


10 posted on 08/16/2018 2:13:03 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Alberta's Child

Maybe he wasn’t born.


11 posted on 08/16/2018 2:20:20 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: SunkenCiv

“The founding population, according to oral tradition, was two canoes led by the island’s first chief, Hotu Matu’a,” says Simpson, who is currently on the faculty of the College of DuPage... “

I can see why this may have been debunked, as I have my doubts that a more than 900 year old man would be on the faculty of the College of DuPage, unless of course, he had tenure.


12 posted on 08/16/2018 2:29:17 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: Richard Axtell

maybe hes a democrat


13 posted on 08/16/2018 2:50:13 PM PDT by Craftmore
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“I have my doubts that a more than 900 year old man would be on the faculty of the College of DuPage, unless of course, he had tenure.” Ruth Buzzy Ginzberg is well on her way to that level as a Supreme.....sorta’.


14 posted on 08/16/2018 2:55:59 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Craftmore

He’s 900 years old, he’s a democrat, and he votes in every election. Several times!


15 posted on 08/16/2018 5:16:57 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Has there been any attempt to decipher the meaning of the symbols on the back of the statues?


16 posted on 08/16/2018 5:19:59 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Richard Axtell

My husband used to teach with Dale. I think he’s physically in Australia, and currently an on-line teacher for the College of DuPage. Definitely not 900.


17 posted on 08/16/2018 5:33:19 PM PDT by Ray'sBeth
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"Has there been any attempt to decipher the meaning of the symbols on the back of the statues?"

I was able to decipher the symbols, wink, wink. They say Don't eat at McDonald's, or Burger King, but Chick-Fil-La is great stuff. :-)

18 posted on 08/16/2018 6:22:30 PM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s).)
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To: Fred Nerks
Oh yeah. Bupkis.

19 posted on 08/16/2018 6:47:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

It's a complicated story:

The Peruvian Connection

Markings on the backs of these "The Children of the Sun" represent the sun on the horizon, the two v's below the horizon represent their conciousness of the summer/winter solstice, indicating that these people were into celestial navigation. Rapa nui is the closest island to the node delineated by; the tropic of Capricorn and one of the five 72degree nodes that the ancients divided the world into. These five nodes start at Alexandria. Another is Tonga Tapu, Gavea is close to another. The solar observatory which was moved during the building of the Aswan Dam was directly on the tropic of Cancer. Rapa iti is directly opposite Alexandria.There is certainly a lot more to the ancient civilization on Rapa nui than scientists would have us believe.


20 posted on 08/16/2018 7:55:01 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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