Easter Island .The ocean bathes its shores while the gigantic Moai observe sightings with their serious expressions and their petty glances, as if they were watching a horizon from another time guarding in turn an indecipherable secret.
What really happened to the Rapanui? An entire civilization dissolved from our history books without knowing that it really happened, without Let us understand that he made them escape leaving such a peculiar legacy populating this famous island.
Its dimensions are impressive, they range between 4 and 11 meters and its weight is usually between 150 and 200 tons, an extraordinary weight that always fills incognito specialists, wondering how the population would move these great megalithic representations to the edges of the island (800 se they place on the line of their edge and on their platforms).In fact, on the island there were still almost 400 moais that the Rapanui never finished, but how was this, what really happened?
They stopped fishing.In fact, the archeological findings show us that they had to replace the fish with other animals like migratory birds...Their reality was already very serious, the times of hunger, war, mortality began...according to experts this was one of the reasons why the Rapa Nui ended up leaving the island of Easter.
The rats caused the extinction of several birds and even the deforestation not only of Easter Island, but also of other archipelagos.An ecological collapse that the population could not cope with , seeing how they devoured the palm trees and all their seeds.They might even bring some kind of diseases...
Anyway, whatever that if we are clear is that the Rapa Nui ran out of natural resources to be able to survive on that beautiful island.Perhaps, what happened on the island of Moai should serve as an example to the exploitation that we ourselves We exercise in our countries.Perhaps there will come a day when we must also leave the cities leaving our stony monuments as silent witnesses of what we were one day...
And you, what do you think?
Image: Regional Office of Educ
What really happened to the Rapanui? An entire civilization dissolved from our history books without knowing that it really happened, without Let us understand that he made them escape leaving such a peculiar legacy populating this famous island.
Easter Island guards
Easter Island is undoubtedly one of the sites more enigmatic of our world.Located halfway between Chile and Tahiti, this triangle-shaped land wakes up every day with the silence of the ocean attending it expectantly, fearful even for those stone giants called Moai .They are symmetrical faces of profiled lips and unique monkeys d e red stone called Pukao; time has stopped them a bit but you can still see in them this hue decorating those elaborate tufa sculptures of the Rano Raraku volcano.
Its dimensions are impressive, they range between 4 and 11 meters and its weight is usually between 150 and 200 tons, an extraordinary weight that always fills incognito specialists, wondering how the population would move these great megalithic representations to the edges of the island (800 se they place on the line of their edge and on their platforms).In fact, on the island there were still almost 400 moais that the Rapanui never finished, but how was this, what really happened?
An ecological disaster
The Rapa Nui created a very prominent social organization based on religious pastors and fisheries Solian cut down many trees in view of their need to build canoes and survive from catches of fish and dolphins, also to move moais.It is said that one day the trees became depleted, the deforestation was already so pronounced that the consequences for their way of life were already unsustainable.
They stopped fishing.In fact, the archeological findings show us that they had to replace the fish with other animals like migratory birds...Their reality was already very serious, the times of hunger, war, mortality began...according to experts this was one of the reasons why the Rapa Nui ended up leaving the island of Easter.
New and curious discoveries: Rats?
It's been a while since a couple of scientists , Hunt and Lipo, brought new you and disconcerting data on the disappearance of the Rapa Nui on Easter Island.According to them, several deposits found in Anakema show us the huge population of rats that came to populate Easter Island.invasion.And according to these experts, the island was invaded by several Polynesian colonizers that brought several species of rats in their boats.The multiplication of these rodents in the land of the Moai was spectacular.
The rats caused the extinction of several birds and even the deforestation not only of Easter Island, but also of other archipelagos.An ecological collapse that the population could not cope with , seeing how they devoured the palm trees and all their seeds.They might even bring some kind of diseases...
Anyway, whatever that if we are clear is that the Rapa Nui ran out of natural resources to be able to survive on that beautiful island.Perhaps, what happened on the island of Moai should serve as an example to the exploitation that we ourselves We exercise in our countries.Perhaps there will come a day when we must also leave the cities leaving our stony monuments as silent witnesses of what we were one day...
And you, what do you think?
Image: Regional Office of Educ
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