1. Easter Island La Isla Pascua

3. Location

4. Size

5. Land Form

7. Early History (500 AD-1050)

8. First Settlers No written records Polynesians Named island Rapa Nui Numbers grew

9. Survival Brought animals Plants Homes System of cooperation

10. Middle History (1050-1680)

11. Cooperation Turns to Competition 900-1,000 Moai carved and transported— cooperation Clans build larger and larger ones Many early statues destroyed Ahu became burial place of deified

12. Description of Moai

14. Not just heads

15. Why they were built

16. How they were carved

17. Carving

18. How they were transported

21. Ahu

22. After 1680

23. Chaos and Destruction

24. Deforestation

25. Hunger

26. Caves

27. Birdman Competition

28. Prized Bird—Sooty Tern

29. Europeans arrive 1722 Jacob Roggeveen arrives-names island Easter Island Primitive conditions Population--~3,000 Perpetual warfare Next 50-100 years other Europeans arrive

30. 1770 Spanish claimed the island—so remote, under populated, lacking resources that no formal occupation took place 1862-64 Major slave raid from Peru Epidemics—population decimated to 111 1864 Catholic missionaries come to convert islanders—population slowly increased 1888 Chile annexed land

31. Easter Island Today

32. Facts of Recent Years 1965 Governor appointed 1995 designated World Heritage Site Spanish spoken Tourism major economic source 2012 Census 5,800 residents 80% Rapa Nui

33. Moais Deteriorating

34. Land

35. Lessons Learned Consequences of irreversibly damaging environment – Deforestation abandon houses—live in caves canoes no longer built, fishing nets no longer available Soil erosion, crop yields decline Impossible to support large population

36. Cultural and Social Impact No longer able to erect statues—belief systems and social organization questioned No protein available resulted in desperate means to survive Inability to recognize and face the problem Forgotten history

37. Comparisons Easter Island Small speck Clans were unified Used up natural resources Strongest ruled No means of escape Didn’t face problem Collapse--not with a bang but with a whimper World Today Small speck in universe Globalization, trade, and communication unify Rising population confronts shrinking resources Businessmen, politicians interests rule No means of escape Headed for collapse?