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 food and fertilizer
Hunt/Lipo studies in 2001
- 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)
- pigs and dogs did not make it to islands
- p06 Dutch Jacob Roggeveen Easter Sunda 1722 (treeless. 3000 healthy peopls)