Lessons from Easter Island | Carl Lipo | TEDxBermuda
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Anthropologist Dr. Carl Lipo says everything we thought about Easter Island’s famous collapsed civilisation is wrong. He suggests Bermuda can learn lessons from that catastrophe about long-term survival on our own isolated, water-parched island.
I currently serve as an Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). I am part of the faculty of that forms the basis of a Program in Archaeology and a founding member of IIRMES, a multi-disciplinary institute for the study of materials, environments and society. At CSULB, I teach classes in Introductory Archaeology, World Prehistory, Eastern North American Prehistory, Artifact Analysis, GIS, Statistics, Method and Theory, Foundations of Anthropology Field Research Design, Geophysical Techniques, and the Scientific Study of Origins. My research focuses on the use of evolutionary theory to generate scientific explanations about human cultural change in the archaeological record. I see this focus as a critical challenge for the social sciences and that our ability to be able to due this task vital to our future. My perspective is fairly idiosyncratic to my background but lodged in the philosophy of science and evolutionary biology. You can view some of my recent work (here) to see a little into how I think about the world. My recent studies include the development of theoretical models and the construction of methods for studying patterns of change caused by cultural transmission and the process of natural selection in cultural systems. In addition, I have interests in remote sensing to efficiently and non-destructively study the record. This work includes the use of magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, thermal imagery and ground penetrating radar. My field research has taken me from the Mississippi river valley to Easter Island to California and coastal Guatemala.
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Hotu Matua is the older brother to Hotu Roa.
Hotu Roa was the Captain of the Tainui Canoe that left Rapa Nui in search of another land to live in and following the Southern Cross Star Constellation bought them to New Zealand(Aoetearoa)
Now known as Maori.
The descendants of the Tainui Canoe are the Waikato people located on the west side of North Island in New Zealand.
Much love to our Rapa nui brothers and sisters.
Well there were only like 1200 of them left and I thought most of them left
Lipo demonstrates that only an engineer could come to logical conclusion about how these structures were made and moved. Woah. Amazingh.
Based on the graph, the number of Maoi falling over seems to correspond to European contact. Statutes are standing prior to European contact, then they start to fall over. I am sure some fell over on their own, but I am sure a number of them were pushed over by outsiders.
European contact had nothing to do with the disintegration of island culture. The short ears killed the long ears and ate them. Religious and social warfare between them. They forgot how to fish and ate each other. Don't be naive. Human Nature: Economics over Morality.
Interesting stuff! What about the destruction of the trees which was supposed to a big thing?
Don't chop down the trees!
If the community was so small and so isolated...it seems building and keeping that statues was the thing that gave a sense of the community. Doing something toghether, something in what all belived and participated. Despite the basic labor for producing food.
From otherhand in sertan moment of natural changes that cultural norm of making statues could over ehsoste the rescources. Could be both true.
Great presentation. I would have loved to listen about findings about the moai top hats and also who the team of Japanese were that came post 1950 to stand moai up
Great talk! The Earth is our only land and we should take care of it.
So stone statues for saving the world?
If you were a passing alien, where would you land? Easter Island statues depict what they looked like.
OK, am I the only one who concludes that the Moai, rather than being a waste of human labor, might actually be the BYPRODUCT of those rock gardens? IOW, they were what was left over after they quarried the minerals they needed? Carving the statues might have simply provided some motivation for what would otherwise have been a task of pure drudgery.
Thank you! I have read these things but this is a great presentation.
Brilliant presentation.
So what happened to the trees?
Could they have done sea burials?
If people got there and started to make the statues, why aren't there similar statues elsewhere?
They probably got most of their food from the ocean
Also why is he so trusting of accounts made by people at that time?
Maybe he could have talked about the ecological disaster after cutting all the trees, but ye
I think maybe those tools are coconut openers 😕
Would be, we wasn't there so, we don't really know
It's like there is only one ideolgy that permeates every single tedtalks..
It's easy. The statue fall on their own over time.
Beautifull
whos here after watching leblanc video
I have a theory on how they moved these statues on Easter island. They used beeswax. After the statues were removed from the quarry they left a long narrow rectangular vein on the backs and inserted that into a tract they constructed and slid them on a cushioned pathway they created using Palm leaves soaked with beeswax , thus a frictionless surface. They easily slid them down the mountain, so to onlookers at the base of the mountain it would appear these statues were walking. Once the statues were on more level ground they inserted compressed beeswax slabs under the front angled space in the base to move them to the platform. Once the statues were in place they carved off the vein and levelled the base.
Did you watch the video? The guy literally shows you how they likely moved the statues. He even went and did it himself (with others). No need for beeswax.
Bees were introduced to Rapa Nui in the mid-19th century.
No they used wood to roll the rock or used wood as levers etc
They broke bedrock?? They must''ve been in creative mode...
Funny
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The earth is ours... We belong to the earth
Said the first lifeform.
Huh
I don't believe the statues were ever moved. They were built right where they stand today with cement concrete. Ancient people were known to have cement many thousands of years ago and to have built large quantities of bricks with it. Why could they not use the same cement to built statues? The demonstrator statue must have been built with cement. Why ancient people could not do the same cement job? What was hard to get in ancient times was the metal tools. Without these, ancient people had fingers.
We should cut stone samples and investigate them under an electronic magnifying glass to find whether there are traces of marine lives and human hair in the statue structure.
how do you reckon they moulded the concrete?
@@annamartin2881 ：I reckoned the statues were moulded with concrete because of impossibility of carving and moving. Ancient people did not have sharp enough metal tools to carve natural stones, and did not have transport vehicles to move the stones. Now, there is another idea easy to try. That is, cut a few pieces off the statues and taste them with our tongue to find whether there is salt. If salt exists in the statues, it means sea water was used to mix the cement. Cement is present in the huge platform where 16 statues stand; cement is also present in the pedestals on which the 16 statues sit. The pedestals were built with natural stones bound together with cement. And the pedestals must pretty high, reaching up to the chest of each statue so as to keep them from being toppled by powerful winds from the sea. Such pedestals also mean that the statues are hollow from bottom to the chest. A hollow body should mean that, the statues were moulded cement concrete.
@@whkwole6842 lol no
jk
Huh
research mudflood.
WHOW
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The Europeans probably tore them down for their love to Jesus 🙄
this guy never heard of evolution ?
wdym
Wut
The part that he did not say is the stone is not native to Easter Island it was put there
The moai are constructed mostly from tuff, some from scoria and basalt. These are all volcanic rocks; the island itself is a volcanic formation. There's a volcanic cone on the island which was a quarry for the tuff used to create the majority of the statues, and there are plenty of unfinished statues still present within it. The stone is all native to Rapa Nui. Where else would it have come from?
Samantha, where you get your data from? Or maybe you are just winding us up? Only problem is there are so many gullible people who get swept along by misinformation, and our political supposedly democratic system needs good information with informed citizens, which we don't have and so we are heading toward our own fall like the Romans and others .
Isn't the material used to build the pyramids not primarily from there? Lol
Or maybe the whole thing is a giant hoax.
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