Talk:Hotu Matuꞌa

message: I had never seen Hotu Matua spelled "Hotu Matu'a" until I came across this page.  Currently, googling "Hotu Matua" returns 19,500 results, whereas googling the name spelled as "Hotu Matu'a" returns less than half that number at only 9,330 results.  Therefore I just added to the article that what this page refers to as "Hotu Matu'a" is more commonly spelled "Hotu Matua".  However, since "Matua" is more common, it may be appropriate for someone to rename this page "Hotu Matua". Adrigon 04:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to rename page as "Hotu Matua"

message: If anyone wants to work on this article,  is a link to The enigmas of Easter Island: island on the edge By John Flenley, Paul G. Bahn, a RS. Dougweller (talk) 17:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A possible source for the article 

message: I´m slightly baffled - in his (admittedly) popular work - Aku-Aku, Thor Heyerdahl makes a point out of mentioning that blood and hair probes from the Rapanui population were analyzed with the best technology available at the time, that the results were very clear to the fact that part of the Rapanui population was ethnically totally unrelated to polynesians - but showed profiles related to small communities in South America, who again might share ancestors with people in Northern Europe. It is common knowledge that tribes/people move in the most astonishing ways over time - given time enough. This paired with some very practical evidence, like engineering skills, points to the fact that Easter Island probably was colonized be two different peoples, coming to the island from different sides. As one of these peoples were technologically more advanced, they called the shots for a  number of years- till they overdid it and pressure on the isolated ecosystem brought flaming rebellion. On top of a bitter civil war, slavehunters and white adventurers tries to get their part of the carcass until the Catholic Church claimed the remainder. And slowly the population began to climb up again. But the knowledge lost in the madness was...lost! Judging from present web-sites, it appears that the rapanui - whatever the size of the earlobes - are right in the middle of a modern tourist inferno. And all Thor Heyerdahl tried to do, was to accumulate the wisdom abour old times, carefully preserved through generations from mouth to ear and protected by heavy superstition = social pressure. In Scandinavia we have - in excavation after excavation - found out, that the "knowledge of old people", preserved through generations, is often a lot more precise than contemporary, political statements.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptcohrt (talk • contribs) 6 May 2012
:Note: I moved this text here from the article-gadfium 23:51, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Heyerdahl's research

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