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Presentation easter island
- 1. Stone Giants Easter Island Oneof the most isolated places on Earth with a impressive and mysterious culture.
- 2. So how smallis Easter Island? Pacific Ocean at 27 degrees south of the equator and some 2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of Chile.
- 3. A jewel ofan island floating in an endless sea volcanic craters lava formations beaches and the brilliant blue water small, hilly massive statues that dot the coastline treeless island of volcanic origin
- 4. Admiral Roggeveen, namedit Easter Island on Easter Day in 1722 2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile) People who built the statues were of Peruvian descent or where they?
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- 7. population grew rapidly outpacedthe island's capacity to renew itself social and cultural collapse forests was gone, the rich ground cover had eroded away springs had dried up vast flocks of birds disappeared no fishing - no wood to build canoes famine and then cannibalism This lead to total chaos
- 8. Once There Wasa mountain formations fishing streams hills forest rich soil So ----- have we learned from their mistakes?
- 9. But before weabandon all hope – take look at Easter Island today………………….. Does anyone have any question?
- 10. http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html Easter Island http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Isld_Pge.html http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/chile_pictures/easter_island_pictures_7.html#ixzz0z 7eCOw8M http://www.geog.ucla.edu/tdfpacific/easter_island.html http://www.naturalsciences.be/active/expeditions/archive2003/easter_island www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jan/30 trance@netaxs.com Once ThereWas a Mountain Ravaging West Virginia for “Clean Coal” By Jim Motavalli Class project: Dr. Thomas Jones IST 111
Editor's Notes
- #2 Ask? How did it get the name Easter island? Why Isolated Why do you think Easter Island is mysterious? Why Impressive? How big “really” are the statues?
- #3 Middle of the Pacific ocean - 64 square miles in size (about twice the area of Charleston, WV)
- #4 A jewel of an island floating in an endless sea. A seemingly never-ending supply of raw materials. Technological advances. Population growth. Depletion of resources. War. Collapse. Sound familiar? The Easter Island story is a story for our times. We too are on an island floating on an endless sea. There are differences, of course. It could be said that Easter Island is tiny and that it was only a matter of time before the resources in such a closed system were used up. But there are parallels between the islanders' attitude towards their environment and "YES" our own.
- #5 WHY?
- #6 great statues of the same gaunt human face! Four hundred were finished. Five hundred more had been abandoned in various states of completion. finished ones were as tall as 33 feet One, still in the quarry, was to have been 65 feet tall -- a 240-ton monolith. These are the works of a strong, energetic people. What could've happened to them?
- #7 Class participation: So what went wrong?
- #8 The barren lands and social strife that Admiral Roggeveen reported during his visit in 1722 make it difficult to imagine the extraordinary culture that had flowered on the island during the previous 1400 years.