easter island
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Easter islandEaster island
Maris Pritson
11a
• Volcanic island
• Capital Hanga Roa
• Remote, inhabited place
• Near Chile
Discovery
• Jacob Roggeveen
• On Easter Sunday 1722
• He found primitive society
1722.....
• Carried off 22 inhabitants
• Contitions worsened
• Population continued to decline(vähenema)
• Island vas taken over Chile
• Few resources
• 30 species of flora
• No mammals
• 2 types of lizard
• People ate potatoes and
chickens
Statues
• 600 massive stone statues
• Over 20 feet high
• Craved with stone tools
• Quarry(kaevandus) at Rano
Raraku
• Male head and torso
• ‘topknot’ (10 tons)
Enviornmental collapse
• Deforestation
• No trees = no canoes
• Unable to escape
• They consumed until none were left
Our lesson
• Limited resources
• No escape
• Find the way of life that does not kill the resources
Used literature
• Clive Ponting “A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations”
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
• http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html
Thank you!