Talk:Easter Island
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There is a possible typo in the upper part of the text, above the illustration: ...Easter Day. Duch found... This is probably should be: The Dutch found... (Duch does not have a meaning. We do not know about any discoverer with a surname "Duch," at least not related to Easter Island.)
- I noticed this too, & changed "Duch" to "Roggeveen". -- llywrch 16:25 Dec 11, 2002 (UTC)
Hey If you want i have some good pictures of my last trip from Easter-Island i would put it under the licens of GFDL if you want to link them you can look it on my website (http://www.chmouel.com/web/index.php?/gallery/polynesia/). Cheers -- User:Chmouel
Should this article be titled "Rapa Nui", maybe with a redirect from "Easter Island"?
More information on after-discovery history is missing. For example, the natives were subject to slavery, and several forms of exploitation that led to furthe loss of cultural transmission. "Someone" do it :) -- Error 02:27 May 15, 2003 (UTC)
The article says
- [The statues] must have been extremely expensive to craft; not only would the actual carving of each statue require years of effort...
but in Aku-Aku, Thor Heyerdahl writes that when he was on Easter Island, and requested that the natives make him a new statue, six men were able to make significant progress in only three days:
- We sat down quetly on the grass and estimated the time needed by the ancient stonemasons to complete a statue. Each of us made his calculations. The mayor [one of those who had been working on the new statue] came to the conclusion that it would take twelve months to complete a medium-sized statue with two teams working all day in shifts. The tall old man said fifteen months. Bill [professor of archaeology] made an independent study of the rock and arrived at the same result as the mayor: the work on one statue would take a year, and then the problem of removing it would arise.
Dominus 04:10, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
References
If anybody's interested in fictional references to Rapa Nui, a large portion of David Brin's novel "Earth" takes place there.
I've just read in a newspaper article that the latest theory about the statues is that they were used to delineate boundaries for the tribes. And that they were probably overturned in boundary wars. MartinC
