HARM wrote:Ug... political correctness and revisionist history run amok. Now we're supposed to believe that it's all the white devil's fault that Easter Islanders overshot the carrying capacity of their island and cut down every tree in sight. Did Makati1 and Noobtube write the screenplay?
HARM wrote:Ug... political correctness and revisionist history run amok. Now we're supposed to believe that it's all the white devil's fault that Easter Islanders overshot the carrying capacity of their island and cut down every tree in sight. Did Makati1 and Noobtube write the screenplay?
HARM wrote:Ug... political correctness and revisionist history run amok. Now we're supposed to believe that it's all the white devil's fault that Easter Islanders overshot the carrying capacity of their island and cut down every tree in sight. Did Makati1 and Noobtube write the screenplay?
Subjectivist wrote:foolish savages who couldn't manage themselves
HARM wrote:When the Dutch colonizers arrived in 1722, they described the landscape as barren and denuded of trees, as well as cannibalism being practiced by the relatively few survivors. Unless of course, you believe Jared Dimaond, Hunt & Lipo, National Geographic and a billion other respected sources are complete liars.
Of course Europeans also brought a lot of nasty diseases that did not help. Nonetheless, it's quite clear that the Easter Islanders had already decimated their own population via ecocide --with little or no help from Europeans.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Strummer wrote:Subjectivist wrote:foolish savages who couldn't manage themselves
The existence of the Moai statues and the extreme effort wasted on creating them is more than enough proof for the foolishness of the natives and their inability to manage the limited resources of an isolated island.
Synapsid wrote:The sweet potatoes and (I believe) the cassava are a puzzle of sorts. Europeans, arriving in the Pacific, found Polynesians growing them but they're native to South America.
Yams, chickens, pigs and sugarcane they brought with them from the Old World, but not sweet potatoes, or cassava.
"The evidence for Polynesian contact with the New World prior to Columbus is substantial," David Burley, an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University in Canada, said. "We have the sweet potato, the bottle gourd, all this New World stuff that has been firmly documented as being out here pre-Columbian. If the Polynesians could find Easter Island, which is just this tiny speck, don't you think they could have found an entire continent?"
Dr. Alice Storey agrees. In 2007, the then-Ph.D. student at the University of Auckland, published a study linking a 600-year-old Chilean chicken bone as having a genetic mutation found in ancient chicken bones found in the Pacific. Cooper has argued her findings did not describe a genetic mutation in the Pacific but one that came from European chickens.
- Total number of moai on Easter Island: 887
- Total number of maoi that were successfully transported to their final ahu locations: 288 (32% of 887)
- Total number of moai still in the Rano Raraku quarry: 397 (45%)
- Total number of moai lying 'in transit' outside of the Rano Raraku quarry: 92 (10%)
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests