who built the easter island statues?

Question

what kind of people were they? (cannibals, civil? etc.)

Answer 1

They kind of look like evil easter bunnies, don't they?

Answer 2

No one seems to know for sure,although similar statues were seen in New Zealand, so it is thought that perhaps it may have been the Ma-oi people or Polynesians. I don`t think they were cannibals, because I don`t remember hearing anything about human bones being found apart from a complete skeleton. How can we know if they were civilised, I doubt they were civilised in the same sense that we are, but they were certainly clever stone masons and possibly had a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics, if they got to the island by boat from elsewhere then surely they used the stars as their`road-map` to cross the oceans.It will remain a mystery until such time that some one finds more evidence, perhaps from excavation on the island.

Answer 3

O.k. so I know the real deal. I'm in a cultural anthropology class and we studied in intensively. Unfortunatley, I forgot the name of the actualy tribe of people who lived there. We do know know through language similarity and cultural evidence that they probably came from Polynesian islands. Over time- people on the island lost contact with the homeland and they set off on their own civilization. The statues were built for religious purposes and the people believed they contained a power called "Mana." -Which basically is good karma and luck whatever. The ARE NOT extra-terrestrial. Rock quaries on the island still have some half completed statues in them! Anyway, the people thought creating the statues would please their Gods. Over time, resources on the island dwindled (carbon-pollen dating proves this). As the society started to fall a religious revolt occured and a religion reffered to as "The Birdman Cult" took over. The new God/religion failed to unite the people and things only got worse. -oh and the second religion lasted about 200 yrs. People on the island got so desperate they shoved many statues over and broke them in attempts to release mana and good health back to the people! Oh and yes, evidence does prove that people got desperate enough to resort to cannibalism to survive. All that is left today on the island is a giagantic sheep farm and a small village of people that has no recolection of the past. Sad really.

Answer 4

The community Polynesians who first inhabited the islands. The islands replaced into densely forested besides the undeniable fact that the variety of the stone idols deforested the island and wreaked ecological disaster on the Easter islanders (a parable for us all there). Peruvian slavers ultimately killed/carried off the most suitable inhabitants.

Answer 5

As is the case with the Great pyramids, ETs built the originals, and humans tried to replicate them. That's why you find perfect pyramids (The 3 Great Ones) and Easter Island statues, and imperfect ones.

Answer 6

They were the native people of those islands, as far as is known they were not cannibals it seems that like all people who believed in religion they eventually wiped each other out in religious wars

Answer 7

The people who lived there?

Answer 8

it was the Polynesians,in particular the descendants of "kon tiki",they left their own land in balsa wood rafts after being defeated by a rival tribe and arrived in Easter island, they eventually died out after cutting down all the trees in the island a couple of hundred years after arriving in the island,no trees no more ocean going boats,and no escape from the island,when the food available on the island ran scarce then they faced starvation,alas no more kon tiki tribe,read the book the kon tiki expedition-raft across the south Pacific by Thor Heyerdah

Answer 9

Most likely the Polynesians.

Answer 10

Nobody knows its one of the world mystery's