Easter Island Heads

Are you certain of that?

Got me.  Why are Australoids black and not Asiatic?

So, are the Europeans responsible for the ruination of the easter Island native culture?
"...HONOLULU, HAWAII—According to some scholars, the people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, committed “environmental suicide” by deforesting their island, an event that led to the society's demographic collapse. But now some archaeologists, including the Bishop Museum's Mara Mulrooney, believe that intepretation of the island's history is wrong. Mulrooney studied 300 radiocarbon dates from Rapa Nui and found that people continued to use the interior of the island to cultivate crops such as sweet potatoes up until European contact. Previously it had been believed that these areas had been abandoned when the island chiefdom supposedly collapsed. "The new picture that emerges from these results is really one of sustainability and continuity rather than collapse, which sheds new light on what we can really learn from Rapa Nui,” said Mulrooney. “Based on these new findings, perhaps Rapa Nui should be the poster-child of how human ingenuity can result in success, rather than failure.” Mulrooney believes that it wasn't until after European contact and the introduction of new diseases that the society underwent demographic collapse...."
http://archaeology.org/news/1649-131216-easter-island-never-collapsed

Originally posted by Nick1986 Hard to say. Perhaps they were descended from Africans who colonised India? They may have migrated before the arrival of lighter-skinned invaders

And Saint Nick 1986, just where did these "honkeys" originate?

Ron

Originally posted by Nick1986 I think the statues were the cause of war and famine. The islanders cut down all the trees to use as rollers to move the statues, resulting in the irreversible erosion of the fertile soil

Actually, the latest studies showed that the statues could have been moved with the use of any rollers at all.

More likely is that the growing population stripped all the timber for building and cooking and similar domestic uses.  Had the wood been used as rollers, a set of them would have been sufficient to move many statues and would not have resulted in removal of all of the forests.

The islands legends have it that the statues "walked" to their platforms. There are some scientists now that doubt there was ever any heavy forestation on the Island, at least not not enough to be of any consequence and certainly not enough to be relied upon for much by the inhabitants.

Edited by red clay - 20-Dec-2013 at 10:27

A few different possible connections to be pieced together or dis/proven:

Thats interesting about the statues being unique & with tatoos etc like as if = ancestors.

Statues called Moai which may connect with Moa who "may have been the ancestor of mankind, was given birth to in centre of the earth by earth-mother Papa" [~ Noah? statues holding crux area like ham castrated noah?] (& the Moa birds of NZ, & Sa-Moa?)

I had thought that the stone hats could connect with Atlas motif? (Atlantis = Tiahuanaco/Peru/SouthAmerica.) Polynesians could have come from America rather than gone to America? (Currents. Kon Tiki. Kumara. Uru.) [Old World -> Atlantis/SthAmerica -> EasterIsl? (&, Atlantis/SthAmerica -> Olmec/central America?)] Could the deforestation (& toppled statues) been from catastrophe rather than human?

Some faces/heads from central America look similar to Easter island statues.

(Some faces/heads in other pacific islands look similar to easter island ones.)

However there is also the Indus valley script (& ears) connection. [Indus -> Easter -> SthAmer/Atlantis?]


Edited by Arthur-Robin - 21-Dec-2013 at 16:47