Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 758 Destruction of an island

Seagulls, owls, parrots, these were the food of the first Easter Islanders. There were also mice and seals, because it was very close to Antarctica.

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All in all, when they first arrived on the island, what these islanders ate was a mix of meat and vegetables, mainly dolphins, accounting for one-third of the food.

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The entire social state is very simple, belonging to the unique hunting and gathering life in the early stage of human development.

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"However, after more than 400 years, the good days of worry-free food and clothing have come to an end. When most of the forests on the island were cut down, they did not realize the seriousness of the problem. Instead, they felt that these spaces were too wasteful, and the desires of the flesh were satisfied. Then the pursuit of spiritual abundance should begin."

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"So the islanders began to carve huge stone statues out of the tuff on the island. The first seven stone statues about 10 meters in height were carved. They all face the sea, symbolizing the seven leaders at the time."

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"At this time, the population of the island is already over a thousand. More forests need to be reclaimed, more boats need to be built to go out to sea to catch dolphins, and more houses are needed."

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"And since the first batch of seven stone statues were erected, the island's first beliefs arose, that is, those stone statues, as long as people still have physical strength, they will spend on building stone statues."

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"The stones needed for the statue are all taken from the three extinct volcanoes on the island. The tuff is softer and easier to carve."

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"There is no metal on the island, and the best processing tool is obsidian, which can be seen everywhere here."

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Bi Fang squatted down, tugged at the grass for a while, and took out a black rock, the rounded edge was sawed, reflecting the dark light, and it was unusually sharp.

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Around the stone statue, the residents of the island are divided into several factions, with different ideas to build the stone statue, and occasionally there are battles for food and other resources.

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The victorious faction will erect more and bigger stone statues, and sometimes even knock down the stone statues of the defeated side. Overturning the other side's stone statues symbolizes absolute victory.

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The size of the stone statue is getting bigger and bigger every day, just like showing off one's mansion.

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This is nothing, the real terrible thing is that the population is increasing, and even more than 10,000 people during the period from 1200 to 1500 AD when the construction of the stone statues was the craziest.

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A small island of more than 100 square kilometers is obviously unbearable to live under the society of gathering and hunting, so many people thrive.

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To make matters worse - or can be said to be inevitable, there are fewer and fewer palm trees on the island.

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Palm trees are not commercial crops, so they grow very slowly. It takes two years from seed to germinate, and 15 years from germination to grow into a tree more than 10 meters high.

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They were chopped down to make boats and houses, used to transport stone statues, used to burn fires for warmth, and the seeds were eaten away by mice.

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It was in 1650 AD, when the population peaked at 20,000, that all the palm trees on Easter Island disappeared.

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In addition to palm trees, several other tall trees also disappeared during this period. The result was fatal.

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The dolphin meat that people depend on for a living is gone, because there is no tree to build a new boat to hunt dolphins in the deep sea.

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But dolphins once occupied a small half of the food of the island's natives.

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Most of the birds on the island are extinct, because there is no forest, the birds will not come here to make their nests, and the only remaining land birds are also eaten up by the people on the island.

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The shellfish and conch shells, which were never looked down upon in the past, were also caught immediately.

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Further development, the residents of the island can only rely on agriculture. In the past, agriculture was a supplement to the gathering industry, but now the vegetarian food such as taro, banana, and sweet potato has replaced the meat they used to eat.

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The only protein that can be produced stably is eggs, and those chickens are descended from chickens brought by the earliest ancestors who landed ashore 1,000 years ago. If chickens were not introduced at the beginning, there may not even be a stable supply of protein after 1,500 years.

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At this time, the islanders were desperately trying to find something to eat.

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The rats that destroyed the palm trees were eaten up, and the food production dropped sharply. The resources are limited! There is no escape!

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They all want to survive! The rest can only be slaughtering for resources!

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The food was depleted day by day, and the war was escalating. The stone statues on the island, whether they were completed or not, were torn down in the war.

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The head of the stone statue was taken off, and the eyeballs that used to be made of obsidian for the stone statue were also cut out.

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So much so that many of the stone statues that can be seen on Easter Island now have only high brow bones and no eyeballs in their sockets.

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Along with Bi Fang's narration, the dull tone contained despairing darkness. Many people shuddered and had goose bumps all over their bodies. [This is so...a bit scary]

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[What **** on earth?] [Is this why human beings want to explore the universe?]

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[Damn it, isn't the earth an island? It's just that it's very big and has strong resilience. If humans don't use the starry sky navigation technology, isn't it the same as Easter Islanders who don't have palm trees to build ships?]

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[Another pessimistic day]

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[I'm still young, I'm only eighteen years old, why do you want me to think about the future of mankind (woo woo woo)]

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In front of everyone's eyes, they seemed to see a vibrant paradise, but in the end, because of unrestrained demands, one creature fell down one by one, and in the end, only humans were left on the entire island, killing each other.

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From around 1500, the forest began to disappear, to 1722 when the first European came to the island. In the past 200 years, food shortages and wars caused the population of the island to drop from 20,000 to more than 2,000.

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The islanders are skinny and skinny, and the social structure has completely collapsed. The same kind of food even began to appear in the pots and pans.

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When the Dutch arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the guide brought by Tahiti also heard a very vicious curse word: "Your mother's flesh is still embedded in my teeth!"

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Bi Fang put the obsidian block into his backpack and stood up again.

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"Now the Easter Islanders have stopped talking about the glory of the past. Those worship of stone statues are already history for them. In the later period of social collapse, they began to worship a new thing called bird man."

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If it was on weekdays, many audience members would have laughed when they heard this word, but now, they can't laugh no matter what.

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"Although the trees on the island can't build large ships, they are still more than enough to carve handicrafts. They use a tree called Mailer to carve the image of a bird man and worship the big bird."

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The collapse of society has made it impossible for the islanders to recreate the brilliance of stone statues more than ten meters high. They can only achieve their inner satisfaction by carving some palm-sized birdmen stone statues.

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"Perhaps their motive for worshipping birdmen is the hope that one day they can grow wings like birds and escape from this 'island of death'."

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"At that time, their desperation could already be seen. There are many reliefs of birds' heads and people under the cliffs of this island."