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!