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  • Those prominent statues stood on a strong stone base. The purpose of the statues including their base, was to protect island from the ocean waves ( wave breakers), and to protect shores from washing away. Also, statues could have military purpose; the enemy, seeing from their ships giant silhouettes of people, could change their mind about attacking the islanders. So statues did serve several purposes at once, including worshiping their gods or ancestors. 

  • All these political adds are killing me and its not even November ><

  • Looking for : Los Incas en Oceania.

    On 1472 the Inca Tupac Yupanqui travel these islands with two hundred ships. For example any Moais have a red hat called PUKAO. In quechua, inca's language, red is designed PUKA, over another 30 coincidences.

  • @916Radman

    THAT'S WHAT THOSE CORPORATE F***S WANTED YOU TO THINK!

  • They weren't cutting trees just to move statues, they also cut trees to get at the soil underneath to farm. They practiced slash-and-burn agriculture. Unfortunately the thin volcanic soil, steep slopes and heavy rainfall meant the farmland became infertile pretty quick. Nothing to do about it but cut deeper into the forest. They might even have realized what was happening by the time the trees were half gone, but by then it was too late. Too many people to feed.

  • Did they die ?

  • @activedentalfloss What alternate? It is a 63 square mile island. Without trees, how would they hollow out canoes to fish for porpoises (their main food source) off the coast? How would they stop all the top soil from eroding after the trees were gone? If you get rid of all your resources, that's it. Game over. You can't support the same population. Easter Island is a microcosm of the world. So take some notes.

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  • "Easter Island's inhabitants used up all their resources and eventually died out -- a lesson for us all." Yep.

  • @Louielounge thats right :/ unfortunately

  • the easter island people were hiding.they and the mayans knew that planet X (nibiru) were gonna crash into earth. before we,they were not as smart as us.We have nuclear weapons We have Atom Bombs.We can stop the Anihillation of us by Firing all of our weapons,rockets,nukes,atom bombs. EVERYTHING. Please thumbs this up is you want to live so Youtube can see it,tell it to the government and at least TRY to save ourselfs instead of letting us just die out and let aliens live on this planet

  • @zeta85518 jajajaja idiot

  • Statues=Boku Boku, Moau...

  • Everyone vote I aM mE for ABDC

  • @izzydl1 try the Araucanian along the bio bio river,their DNA shows different.there was a mixing of cultures.apparently you don't know what the HELL you're talking about.

  • enjoyed Thor Heyerdahls book about Rapa Nui and how its indigenous people carved the Moai's. Polynesian Island I would love to visit. nice vid

  • This is so cool I love it!

  • Why do they say that they "eventually died out." The Rapa Nui people are still on the island...

  • What the islanders failed to realise, was that as trees became scarcer, market forces would have provided an alternative to these trees:)

  • @activedentalfloss and the gods would have stepped in, immediately thereafter. Ha ha.

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  • A result of not getting your priorities straight and not planning ahead. Moai won out over food and shelter. A lesson for us.

  • @jgstargazer I urge ya to research this their resources were diminished due to some being that took the natives as slaves and made them diminish their resources. As well as making them fight the other horribly.

  • what language was the folk speakin?

  • Same thing will happen to humans in general. Must... use... more... resources...

  • I didn't know the island was that big..

  • This is very helpful because the fact of the matter is this video from national geographic is showing that this civilization used up all their resources. Even if no one really knows how the statues came to be, this is still a lesson to all civilizations.

  • @jennifer1975rose They didnt use up all the resources it was taken from them and were made as slaves. Its scart if you read about it too.

  • @jennifer1975rose Sis I suggest you research their history too

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  • the history of Easter Island is amazing......anything you see on YouTube or read about in a book is all speculation.....nobody knows how these amazing statues came to be.....we can only speculate

  • think about it people why is the island called easter or better known ishtar or isis or semiramus. becuase of its phoenician and babylonian connections. do your own research. do not trust so called experts who are paid by certain groups to propagate such ideas.

  • @genoa2878 thanks for letting the truth be known. all takes is a little commen sense and research. throw away your T.V. people unless you like being lied to

  • @genoa2878 I agree bro

  • @genoa2878 Some people claim coz it was found on easter sunday lmfao

  • These guys fail... "Statue building contest!!! Biggest one wins!!!" everyone freaks out and builds statues as big as they can and use up all the islands resources like crazy, then after they are done they all die because they have nothing left but statues... FAIL!!! lol Does anyone know if people live there today???

  • @GuamKomudo it is pretty funny.....but what do you mean by they used all there resources to build the statues....the statues are made of rock yeah????

  • They used every single palm tree on the island to move them. They laied down the trees in a line, and put the statue on them and rolled the statues on the trees, they used every tree, and used their cannoes for wood too. they cought all the fish near the island, and had no boats to go out farther to catch fish, the trees were gone, so they could not eat birds anymore. Their diet was fish and birds, and they were both gone. the people then killed eachother for what food was left, and died.

  • @GuamKomudo and you believe this. read your true history books and not the politically driven ones.

  • I watched it on history channel, they did a huge research thing with the native Rapa Nui people that remain there. That is what happened.

  • @GuamKomudo i suppose they went to florida and helped build coral castle too. the history chanel is full of lies and deception. it is theory based on theory. there are several veery old books of real research done on easter island which explain factually with evidence how the statues of easter island were built. it relates to the mystery schhols of babylon. facts based on facts not theory based on theories

  • @genoa2878 This has nothing to do with babylon.

  • @VicRules666 not babylon the location but the religion of mystery babylon. easter island is referebced in several esoteric books such as one written by manley p. hall stating that the aboriginal tribe of the island were indeed long lost bretheren of the ancient babylonian religion. their rituals were almost identical and had similar names to that of ancient mystery babylon as do the american idians in both south and north america. this is fact and is almost undeniable.

  • @VicRules666 more than you know. you must look at the esoteric history rather mainstream or you will be decieved and left in the dark

  • @VicRules666 Its a fact I have seen the videos and research done that has been posted on this facebook page

  • @genoa2878 The egyptian, babylonian andother were once a united strong empire that got broken down bit by bit

  • @VicRules666 you are completely wrong and most likely dont even know the true meaning of the 666 you are using in your handle. it is the number of the initiated man. 3 rights of initiation with 6 acts in each known as the three sixes. read the book of the dead which is the book of initiation in ancient egypt. plutarch and plato also confirm this.

  • It wasn't theory, they have had tons of scientists working on it for a long time, it's not a lie, I don't know what you are talking about, but I've had several sources that tell me what I said. I'm not saying you're wrong, I wasn't there when they all died or built the statues... But not knowing what REALLY happened... I guess that's part of the fun of Easter Island. What is your "facts" of what happend then? =P

  • @GuamKomudo all for show or they refuse to look at the babylon connection becuase they are not allowed too. do not be decieved. there are many many books, much research and many artifacts that without a doubt show that the island and its inhabitants are connected to the phoenicians and to the religion of mystery babylon. so i ask you to research why all these scientists are overlooking and not disclosing this simple fact.

  • @GuamKomudo you must also take into consideration that these inhabitants were intelligent enough to create such stautues and place them astrologically perfect but so ignorant that it would destroy their civilization. i think not. always read everything, believe nothing and do your own research to discover what is going on. do you know how many scientists belong to and are paid by certain groups who want to keep this info hidden bcuz it would rewrite history

  • I tried to do my own research... But aparently all the information I got myself in my own research was all lies made up by crazy people. PLEASE tell me how I can do my own research, if the only people talking about Easter Island are liers, how can I get the truth??? =P Besides, they might not be stupid, but they did in fact use all the trees... And that's pretty much how the island is today, no trees... Wheres your info coming from, so I can learn the TRUTH!!! =P

  • @GuamKomudo i go to used bookstores in search of old books about history religion and so on. most libraries have removed very old books and research materials. I have found that there is a true historic language through theological symbolism, astrology(not what is put out there today) and symbolism. Also if you learn the roots of words in greek, hebrew and latin. true meanings are made easier. one author to look for is manly p. hall, although he did admit to decieving many.

  • @GuamKomudo Go to the island bro there was known to be a red haired race that enslaved the natives and took their resources away and made them kill one another. When the natives turned their heads towards them they ran away from I heard some of the todays polynesians have the red hair, blue eyes and dark skin. Then came the Dutch colonial folk that also did alot of injustice too. So it wasnt entirely native fault

  • i think they put that there so the can block the waves from hiting the land

  • CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP.

    i was watching a documentary about the astronomical links between the incan temples, egyptian pyramids, the heads on easter island and Ankor (among a few more).

    it was a 3 part each 50 mins long, and he presenter was plotting them on a map and showing how they are all 47 degrees apart (or something).

    help me find it please

  • @wrathallll I think you were watching the history Channel "ancient aliens" or something on the mysteries of the world

  • @FatPopCorn cheers dude, i found it, its..... blahblahblah . com/show/questforthelostcivili­sation

  • Yeah!!! Well I like cheesy tacos!

  • what the hell are u talking about Latin people do not have a connection with polynesian people in fact the people of this island did not come in contact with Europeans until way after their population crash which was in 800 AD, Latin people are given the term by the Spanish, polynesian people came into contact with the British so they are not Latin, Latin and indigenous are not the same thing.

  • @izzyidl1 actullay latin people origated from the italian peninsula. latin is not indigenous to soth america it is a roman origination so you are wrong

  • @genoa2878 Lmfao about that latin thing. Yeah it referred to romans and spanish people

  • @izzyidl1 latin america or "latin" peoples is a misrepresentation of nomenclature which found its way into the lexicon of the peoples and has propagated a false pretense of inhabitation within the society. this type of false history has a frequency so high around the globe that as a result a hidden history becomes apparent because of such misnomers. it is not so much purposeful but becomes mainstream and incorrect. these ideas need to be corrected to understand the truth

  • @genoa2878 true dat

  • I'm from Guam, were Polynesian and we were taken over by Spain. Were not considerd Latin people, were still Polynesian, but most of us are Roman Catholic, I'm glad Spain brought that to us though =)

  • @GuamKomudo If you want bro I can help you with ya research :D and show ya the paths and what I have researched from there you can take the lead

  • How? I would like that =)

  • Sin commentarios.

  • idiots.. reuse the damn trees

  • I lived there for 1 hour

  • oh yeah so where the skyscrapers in New York! dumbass

  • What do you mean by aliens?

    And why did they build them?

    It's creepy, lol.

  • we all live on easter island, only our island is so much bigger, we just don't know it. At some point, Peak Oil will make it obvious to all

  • This was a very helpful and interesting video. Thank you for posting it.

  • I spent a week on Easter Island in 2002.. amazing experience!! arrived from Tahiti en route to Santiago; found a garden where we could pitch a tent; overlooking the Pacific.. sunrises & sunsets with the moai & horses; cycling.. rented a small Suzuki & drove around the Island to see all the remote moai & crater where they were 'born'.. it is such a fascinating spot on this planet!! have to go back one day with a digital cam!

  • clarification of my quote.. ''crater'' where they were born.. read ''quarry'' where they were born.. H

  • talking end of Easter Island.. symbolic parallel between past & now.. what happened centuries ago in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific, and how human kind has been taking care of its fragile Planet the past decades.. impact on the environment, climate change, acidification of the oceans, changed weather paterns globally.. this Planet will end up like Easter Island's civilisation & palm trees unless the big guys & decision makers make a change during the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

  • Oh my god??!

  • I`ve never heard of irony,

    I`ve still to learn,

    I am too young.

  • How does it make you a superior being if you can't even spell?

  • Dummer Trottel, dann schreib Du doch besseres Deutsch.

    Außerdem scheinst Du zu doof zu sein Ironie zu erkennen.

    Dummes Kindchen.

    (Das wirst Du aber vielleicht noch lernen wenn Du mal aus den Windeln bist)

  • He doesn't speak english.

  • Simple:

    History tends to repeat itself and people do not seem to be able to learn from past mistakes.

  • And let me tell you what stupid spirit arises slowly in germany.

    You understand!

  • I don' t understand your comment.

  • so if history tends to repeat itself does that mean we are imortal, sinc eevery time we run out of resources, we spore out, reproduce, and head towards other resources?

  • It doesn't mean we're immortal. If you look at Easter Island, most of them died and they didn't spore out. The whole point of the thing is to tell us to conserve

  • But can you remember a time when there wasn't life? And are we really going to die if the earth ends? All these connections are assumptions you are making, not one a fact.

  • The earth is not alive to die. And ROFL how can I remember when there was a time when their wasn't life? I'm not 3 billion years old

  • if the earth is not alive, than how come we are? Where does life come from before its on the earth, what is life outside of time, now that we know time is tied to space, we know that it loops around, and is looped around by something else, this is simple metaphysics to consider.

  • my entire problem with conserving comes from teh fact that not a single person on this earth does it except for me.

  • @Isamright33

    WOW I can't believe you're still on this subject. Don't be full of yourself, lots of people conserve.

  • @Isamright33 so you inveneted the word? Conserve was made just for you? You are an idiot. Get offline and save some power then!

  • @FatPopCorn the word was never invented, time is an illusion...learn you know nothing. Then speak.

  • how are we supior if we dont care about our planet? natives did, but just because the easter island natives died like that all natives get bad name? its like one black guy kills and all black people are murderes

  • for every five killers 4 are black.

  • racist,for every five rapers/ pedophiles they are u re race......racist shouldnt exist...we are all on this planet,we all have a heart and our blood is all red...respect other fucker

  • for every five killers five are human. We are all the same.

  • i'm just showing how science proves nothing, i gave a statistical fact, based on teh fact, 98 percent of violent black men are killers, this isn't true, science has failed.

  • @Isamright33 thats not science you dummy

  • @barkbarkribbitribbit we are all the same is like saying...blacks are all the same, therefore they are all lazy, all chinese are smart, all jews are tightwads ect ect..we are all human true...but just cause one human does one thing doesnt make us all the same

  • @Isamright33 Yeah and their all human you racist twat! Only ever been one race...the Human Race. we're all the same.

  • holy shit thats fucking big

  • thats what she said... to me!! ahaha jk

  • haha good one

  • "in the space of just a few centuries, the trees were used up." hey they could say this about us today and replace trees with natural resources

  • they did it in 300 to 500 years. modern man is doing it under 200.

  • even worse...

  • Modern Man has been using resources for alot longer than 200 years.

  • explain the termin "modern man"!

  • Well, lets see. If we think of it in terms as what Idtelos put, as though modern man is on a timeline of 200 years. I seem to think that modern man would go back further than 1776, so I could only assume that that would be longer than 200 years. Want a definition of "Modern Man", ask the original author (Idtelos).

  • @lookitsmac

    Or as in materialism: replace trees with money and stoneheds with materialistic idea of hapiness.

  • that doesn't make sense in the beginning of this clip it says they made the moai from soft stone so how could it not be chipped by a hammer

  • No different than what mankind is currently doing to this planet by over population, in turn that over burden the Earth's capacity to sustain such a huge human demand on its limited resources.

    The ideal number of humans for this planet size is 529 million, not the 9 billion that increases each year by over 200 million!

  • Yeah that's the spirit. Carve a block of wood and call it your god.

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  • ever see the machine that moves the spaceshuttle or the huge plane that flys it around? the shuttle itself is 170,000 lbs. these statues are 80 tons. you cannot move them with the hardest trees, let alone soft wood palm trees, they would smash flat. the granite that the statues is made of doesnt even chip when smashed with a hammer and chisel. they had no steel to even work with, so what did they use to even carve the stone? great distances these statues were moved. were they more advanced?

  • All early societies were relatively advanced, we just have our heads so far up our asses that we don't realize it. Hell, the Ancient Greeks in the Hellenic age had Steam Power, they just didn't care much for it; they saw it as a toy.

  • they said the stone was soft not extremely hard as you mention so i would imagine hammer and chisel

  • I like landscapes ; Rate: 5+

  • what was the bastard thinking who cut down the very last tree i wonder..

  • Must... Build... Moai... Impress... Neighbors... Damn, I'm hungry.

  • There are 3 kind of plants which have trunk: trees, bushes and palms.

  • Uhhhh....

    Yeah right...

    And i guess your brain isn't working.

  • Type it into Google if you like. I am a biologist and a horticulturalist residing in South Florida. Palms are not trees.

  • The inside of a palm is quite unlike that of a tree. NG made a mistake in either their narration or their filming. The moist tropical forest which would have been the subject of the program, includes a thousand species of broadleaf deciduous and evergreen trees. Think of Fiji or New Zealand.

  • I see that you are in the Philippines, then you are aware of the types of forest I'm talking about. The Mindoro Rain forest is typical and, as in the NG documentary, has been plundered by humans. Are you familiar with it?

  • Yes I am. And you should also know that palms are trees, and they could also be shrubs and in the tropics even vines.

  • They used up their resources us the point.

  • holy shit you got told by like 5 different people

  • look it up.

  • nice try, biologist/ horticulturist! But you have tried too hard this time. "Tree" is not a technical term. "Tree" is a common term people use to refer plants that grow tall. You will never identify an animal that is called "seagull" in any science books. It's because "seagull" is a common term and not a scientifical term. But still, people keep calling sea birds as seagulls.

  • hmm i dont think id ever say "scientifical" when im trying to ream someone. yeah...nice try lol, try scientific..

  • This may be. The point however, is that the islands were not all covered in palms. Depletion of palms was not the problem at all. The Easter Islands were what is known as broad leaf moist tropical forest and it is that specifically that was lost as a resource. Also, palms are very distinctly different and do not always grow tall. What would you call tall? Would you call a banana plant a tree? It is not either.

  • Seagulls are still birds. What you are proposing is more akin to referring to seagulls as bats. Or referring to bats as birds.

  • A tree refers to a specific class of plants... and not the height to which they grow.

    You can find miniature trees which only grow to a foot or two, or large old growth forests where they soar hundreds of feet into the air.

  • FAIl.A seagull is a specific type of sea bird, and yes, it is a "scientifical" term.

  • thats an awesome sight!

  • ass

  • Hehehe!!

    They also gave us the fork, the jeans, and the Jonas Brothers!

  • and the almighty flying spaghetti monster

    and the spork. cant forget that one

  • Nice!

    Let's not forget that they gave us the new Michael Jackson, the first map of MexicoCity's streets, the bicycle helmet, and soooo many sweet topics!

    Thank you, E.T.!!

  • I wish they would beem they back up along with Hanna Banana XD

  • Oh! Is that true?

    Did the extraterrestrials screw your mind to?

  • gringos de mierda ni siquiera saben donde esta la isla de pascua...imbéciles!!!

  • That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

  • HAHAHAHA!!!

  • This is a view at a smaler scale of what could happen to us all

  • Wow, YouTube should really ban accounts that spam. It's so fucking annoying.

  • if all the viewers read , this your idiot killer will have 6352 next victims , you are an idiot to believe this.

  • FUCK YOU SPAMMER GTFO!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You spelled gruesome wrong

  • Camp Pine Lake isnt real.

  • I like learning this kind of stuff.

  • This is what religion does everywhere. The only difference here is that they didn't kill each other because here they all believed in the same stupid religion but even so it destroyed their world when they should have been doing useful things rather than building statues to see who had the biggest dick.

  • Exactly!

  • Yeah, if you watch the video, you uninformed fudge backing dipshit, it was to honor ancestors, not vie for power.

  • You honor YOUR OWN ancestors by building the biggest statue. Unless they're inbred they don't all have the same ancestors. They vie for status via their ancestor honor. If that translates into power I guess we'll never know. But if YOUR ancestors have the biggest statue and the most honor YOU by association have the biggest dick. Are you a mouth breathing retard or why is that such a difficult concept for you to comprehend?

    BTW it's called "fudge-packing" not "fudge backing." What a moron!

  • Haha, you're fucking stupid and let me count the ways.

    If their ancestor had the honor requisite of building such a large statue, then they're not vieing for any kind of status, or superiority, they already have it. So saying they're building statues to see who had the biggest dick is ignorant and uninformed you stupid ball tickling stupid ass.

    Also, thank you for correcting my one typo, let me state it again.

    You uninformed fudge Packing dipshit.

  • You call me "ignorant" and "uninformed." Of what? Your opinion? You offer no facts or sources for facts that I should be informed of or am ignorant of.

    My premise is based on the fact that people are self motivated. They don't drag 10-ton rocks over hills to "honor" some dead relative unless they benefit. Perhaps they benefit in this life with status or in the next life with some imaginary reward.

  • 1) the statues would have never been siting on their face during the transport!

    2) there had been under a big El Niño at the period where the statues were broken and taken down. El Ñiño causes a increase of the temperature of the water and air. The fishes needed to go deeper into the ocean to find their food, so no more fishing with small boats. And the great disturbence on the lands consumed the last of the trees. Those changes on the climat were found in the lake inside the crater