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| Hypothesis - Moai are multipurpose. They provide roosts for seabirds, safe from rats, and provide food and fertilizer | Hypothesis - Moai are multipurpose. They provide roosts for seabirds, safe from rats, and provide a little food and fertilizer (collects on ahu platforms?). Moai are "personalized" to be claimed by individuals or clan groups. |
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| .p02 rolling hills, less than 1 MY old .p04 Te Pito o te Henua, "navel of the world" or ''end of the world'' .p04 double-hulled canoes soon after 1200AD, against prevailing winds and currents, .p04 tacking four times further than straight-line distance, 12500 miles from Raritonga, 30 to 100 men and women .p05 63 square miles, 14 mi E/W, 8 mi N/S .p05 chief Hotu Matu'a, found island by following seabirds to their nests .p05 taro, breadfruit, coconut, yams, bananas. sugarcane, tumeric, kava, chickens, maybe Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) |
.p002 rolling hills, less than 1 MY old .p004 Te Pito o te Henua, "navel of the world" or ''end of the world'' .p004 double-hulled canoes soon after 1200AD, against prevailing winds and currents, .p004 tacking four times further than straight-line distance, 12500 miles from Raritonga, 30 to 100 men and women .p005 63 square miles, 14 mi E/W, 8 mi N/S .p005 chief Hotu Matu'a, found island by following seabirds to their nests .p005 taro, breadfruit, coconut, yams, bananas. sugarcane, tumeric, kava, chickens, maybe Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) |
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| .p06 Dutch Jacob Roggeveen Easter Sunda 1722 (treeless. 3000 healthy peopls) | .p006 1722 Dutch Jacob Roggeveen Easter Sunda 1722 (treeless. 3000 healthy people) .p006 1770 Spanish .p007 1774 James Cook 700 destitute people .p008 1786 La Perouse .p009 1914 Katherine Routledge .p009 1955 Thor Heyerdahl and Wulliam Mulloy .p010 Heyerdahl putative AD 1680 event, hypothetical ecocide, then Diamond .p013 Anakena Beach (middle of north shore) putative landing site .p015 Excavating beach, found human evidence (charcoal, bones. obsidian) AD 1200, then root mold casts below, no humans .p019 Millions of giant palms when first settlers arrived .p021 Dutch saw distant woodlands, 1868 Palmer saw ''Jubaea'' palms in 1868 .p022 1977 John Flenley dates change to 1500, 1999 Mann and Rankin erosion and forest loss between 1280 and 1650 .p027 [[ https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-008-9402-3 | Steve Athens theory]]: Polynesian rats ('''''"prodigeous climbers"''''') ate seeds and nuts (like Lord Howe Island) .p038 ''Manavai'' small rock-wall enclosures, 1 to 6 feet high, protect crops from wind and conserve moisture and nutrients, enclose 6.4 square miles .p043 1996 Joan Wozniak lithic mulching .p048 Hans-Rudolph Bork: more than a billion stones massing 2 million tonnes, . islanders travelled 8 aggregate million miles over 500 years (not much! That's 40 miles per day summed over all islanders .p057 El Camino de los Moai |
Rapanui, Easter Island
Statues That Walked
Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, 2011, West Slope 996.18 Hunt
Hypothesis - Moai are multipurpose. They provide roosts for seabirds, safe from rats, and provide a little food and fertilizer (collects on ahu platforms?). Moai are "personalized" to be claimed by individuals or clan groups.
Hunt/Lipo studies in 2001
- p002 rolling hills, less than 1 MY old
p004 Te Pito o te Henua, "navel of the world" or end of the world
- p004 double-hulled canoes soon after 1200AD, against prevailing winds and currents,
- p004 tacking four times further than straight-line distance, 12500 miles from Raritonga, 30 to 100 men and women
- p005 63 square miles, 14 mi E/W, 8 mi N/S
- p005 chief Hotu Matu'a, found island by following seabirds to their nests
- p005 taro, breadfruit, coconut, yams, bananas. sugarcane, tumeric, kava, chickens, maybe Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans)
- pigs and dogs did not make it to islands
- p006 1722 Dutch Jacob Roggeveen Easter Sunda 1722 (treeless. 3000 healthy people)
- p006 1770 Spanish
- p007 1774 James Cook 700 destitute people
- p008 1786 La Perouse
- p009 1914 Katherine Routledge
- p009 1955 Thor Heyerdahl and Wulliam Mulloy
- p010 Heyerdahl putative AD 1680 event, hypothetical ecocide, then Diamond
- p013 Anakena Beach (middle of north shore) putative landing site
- p015 Excavating beach, found human evidence (charcoal, bones. obsidian) AD 1200, then root mold casts below, no humans
- p019 Millions of giant palms when first settlers arrived
p021 Dutch saw distant woodlands, 1868 Palmer saw Jubaea palms in 1868
- p022 1977 John Flenley dates change to 1500, 1999 Mann and Rankin erosion and forest loss between 1280 and 1650
p027 Steve Athens theory: Polynesian rats ("prodigeous climbers") ate seeds and nuts (like Lord Howe Island)
p038 Manavai small rock-wall enclosures, 1 to 6 feet high, protect crops from wind and conserve moisture and nutrients, enclose 6.4 square miles
- p043 1996 Joan Wozniak lithic mulching
- p048 Hans-Rudolph Bork: more than a billion stones massing 2 million tonnes,
- islanders travelled 8 aggregate million miles over 500 years (not much! That's 40 miles per day summed over all islanders
- p057 El Camino de los Moai