Firstly there are people hanging out on Easter Island; but they are not the ones who surrounded the island with huge massive carved stone totems of human effigies.
Easter island is in the South Pacific a small island a long way West of Chile in South America, this place existed for centuries remote forgotten and prosperous. Until the males started competitions . . . The idea was make a stone image to protect the local inhabitants of that clan.
then testosterone or male competitiveness got in the way, the neighboring tribe felt intimidated and made a bigger statue. The first tribe, not to embarrassed by a mere bigger statue made another statue bigger than the others. This male ego sparing continued till someone went . . .
F*** ! OK ; how do we move it ?
So once the theoretical maximum size had been determined, what is the solution; make many many more in mass production, more is better ! especially when you cannot go bigger ! ! ! To move these huge stone blocks the principles of living within the environment were ignore.
After all male competitiveness and egos were involved and every tree was cut down as rollers to move these huge stone blocks to their display sites. The natural food sources were lost as a result of losing these trees. But lots of pretty stones were standing around.
Once news of these crazy remote stone masons reached the outside world; ships came to investigate. Of course some of these ships were slavers and captured the fittest members of the tribes. In return the ships brought unknown diseases that fatally weakened the Easter Islanders and lack of genetic diversity forced Mother Nature to discontinue this unique human species.
All that as left were a lot of questions from outsiders and a lot of very useless huge stone statues : )
/ hugz ; )
How do you think these huge stones did at protecting the local tribes from misfortune ? ? ?