Island of Easter
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The Island of Easter
Synopsis
The enigma of the missing civilization of the Island of Easter and their gigantic statues are only in the archaeology, due to the isolation of this arid earth, of their neighbors. (It is at 3.700km of Chile in the ocean Pacific). The current archaeological evidence, indicates that approximately 1600 years behind (it would be the year 398), the first residents of the island, scanners of the Polinesia, found a paradise with subtropical, countless forests, species of birds, lacking of predators. They prospered, they multiplied and they distributed their resources in a such way that he/she suggests the existence of a sophisticated economy and a complex political system, besides an unique writing system in the Polinesia, fact in wooden splints. When emulating, in the stone sizes, to their predecessors of the polinesia, they began to erect the enormous statues in platforms, while the clans rivals tried to be overcome, each other, with ostentations of power and wealth. Possibly, as the population of the island grew to 20.000 inhabitants approximately., the forests were talados with more speed with which you/they left regenerating. The trees became fuels, canoes, houses, cylinders and ropes to transport the gigantic stone heads...