The megaliths are just an appearance, the origin of the Easter Island megalithic civilization is the dry goods, and archaeology reveals the truth

The boulders on Easter Island have always been a mystery haunting the world, you know, this is an island in the center of the South Pacific.

Luckily, this island was not discovered by humans during the Age of Navigation, and was not discovered until 1722 by the Dutch Admiral Jacob Roguffen. At that time, more than 100 years had passed since the era of great navigation.

The location of this island is really too far. It is 3,500 kilometers away from Chile in the east and more than 5,000 kilometers away from the United States in the north. The nearest place to the south is the Antarctic, which is about 4,500 kilometers away. The west is too far away from the inhabited islands. About 2000 kilometers.

In the vast ocean, to be able to find such a small island with signs of civilization is lower than the probability of winning the lottery of millions.

Easter Island Overview

After Rochfin landed on the island, he discovered that the island was actually inhabited. Moreover, the people above do not seem to know the world outside the island. There are about 3,000 people, and they all live in the Stone Age.

This time, Rogoffen had to re-examine the greatness of life.

In addition to lamenting the greatness of life, Rogoffen also discovered a large number of megalithic statues on the island. The megalithic statues are tens of meters high and weigh dozens of tons.

He really couldn't think of how the few people on the island with primitive tools could accomplish such a magnificent project? Moreover, Luo Hefen initially found that the resources on the island are not very rich, and even the big trees are pitiful. I don't know where these people come from, and I don't know how the boulders came out.

Rogoffen's discovery has also attracted the attention of outside scholars. Since civilization has developed on a small island, it is necessary to study where civilization originated?

If it is placed in ancient times, I believe that there will be new myths and stories. Maybe there is a "xx created man", or "xx legend", I can't imagine the brain hole of the ancients.

In modern times, if you want to unravel the mystery, you have to rely on advanced scientific knowledge.

DNA testing and linguistic analysis to determine where Easter Islanders came from

Through DNA testing, conclusions can be drawn easily. The Easter Islanders have very obvious Polynesian haplogroup characteristics, and through language analysis, they also belong to the language family of the Polynesian South Island.

From this, it can be concluded that this group of people came from the Pacific Islands, a branch of the Polynesians.

Now that the source of the Easter Islanders has been resolved, the problem of the island's boulders is still haunting people's minds. In the 1860s, European missionaries also discovered wooden boards with strange symbols engraved on the island.

Through continuous research, archaeologists have found that this special symbol actually records a magical story. The question of the origin of the boulders was also finally unraveled.

There are towering trees on this island, and the products are extremely rich. As early as one day more than 1,500 years ago, the island welcomed a group of mysterious guests.

They had a total of seven patriarchs, who brought their tribe here. After dozens of days of sailing at sea, they were already exhausted, and the food on the boat had already been eaten up.

If they can't find a place to stay, they will start eating the sailors on the ship, which no one wants, but it is inevitable. Fortunately, they encountered this small island, and the island is rich in resources, so they lived here.

These people were a group of people on the Polynesian Islands in the distance, who were banished according to tribal rules. If they can find a new habitat, they will survive, and if they can't find a place until the food runs out, then sorry, they will have to go to God.

where did the boulders come from

From the source of this group of people on the island, it can be known that the boulders are definitely not brought by them, but a new behavior that they developed on the island later

As for why they carved boulders, the simple explanation can be said to be idle.

After this group of people went to the island, the resources and food on the island were sufficient, and they no longer had to worry about hunger. There is a saying in the ancients, "Sufficiency and lust," and then they happily entered the second stage.

After decades of fertility and reproduction, the population of the island has finally reached thousands, and there is no need to worry about the survival of the population.

Facts have proved that if people don't worry about food and drink, and there is no pressure to survive, people will feel very depressed. After they are rich in material, they also have new demands in spirit.

Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be fights and killings, and there will be people with sophistication. From the first seven ethnic groups, after a long period of development, it has become a large group of several thousand people.

In order to facilitate the rule and make up for the huge spiritual emptiness, the seven patriarchs were first carved into huge stone statues and enshrined on the island.

Since there are seven, the problem of recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestry arises. This is only one of the reasons. If the resources are sufficient, there will be no such problems at all.

The biggest problem is that with the development of people, the clansmen on the island have grown to tens of thousands, and the resources on the island are a bit stretched.

Why did civilization decline

Therefore, in order to snatch resources, the division of territories began, which led to wars.

In the Warring States Period, remember what the sign of a country's demise was? Not the emperor was killed, but the ancestral temple was destroyed. If the emperor is killed, a new one can be established, but if the ancestral temple is gone, it will basically be declared gone.

Boulder Island has also formed a similar "rule", in addition to defeating each other, it is necessary to overthrow the boulders they guard. In this way, several ethnic groups began to attack frequently.

According to the inevitable trend of historical development, the island will eventually be unified. We don't know if they had "far and close attack" at that time, I believe the battle must be very exciting.

They don't worry about food and drink, they don't think about development, develop resources, and go further and further on the road of internal friction. A thousand years later, the animals and trees on the island have been made almost the same. With the destruction of the environment, the original ecology has lost its driving force for sustainable development.

Even the trees were cut down so much that even the ships going out to sea could not be supplied. The survival of Easter Islanders is threatened from within.

In this case, an existential crisis is once again on the agenda.

As a result, the only remaining trees, boats, and exiles on the island were taken away. They were going to find a new territory. After waves of people left, they never came back. For the group of people who stayed on the island, it became more and more difficult to survive.

When it was discovered in 1722, fewer than 2,000 people remained on the island.

postscript

The laws of population development, whether animals or people, must be obeyed. When the ethnic group expands to a certain extent and the limited resources cannot support the needs of the ethnic group, nature will eliminate a large number of weak individuals.

Or a plague, or a war, and finally establish a new balance. The experience of Easter Island gives us inspiration. Isn't the earth like this small island to us?

We built civilization, we competed with each other, but while we competed, we also had to protect it. Easter Island can still be exiled when its resources are in crisis. If we get to that time, where can we be exiled?

The rise and fall and development of civilization will eventually be a cycle.