aster Island Home Page is full of fascinating information regarding everything from the discovery of Easter Island to modern day life on the island. Though there are many theories about Easter Island, in my opinion no one really knows exactly what happened there. It seems to me that the more factual data we discovered the more questions we create. I found it interesting that in a recent archeological discovery they found that porpoises made up a large portion of the early inhabitants' diet, which means that they would have had to have had some sort of sea worthy vessel in which to hunt this animal. Remembering that when Easter Island was discovered the only boats that were found were three small canoes (that were not sea worthy), they must have been previously equipped with lager boats in order to hunt the porpoises. Another theory that I found particularly entertaining was that extraterrestrial beings inhabited the island and were responsible for the statues and their placement. Though I do not agree with all of the theories that I read, I am still intrigued by Easter Island and after looking at the pictures of the Island on the Internet I would like to travel there in the future. Easter Island is located off the coast of Chile and it cost approximately $800.00 to fly there round trip from Chile, but what an experience it would be. Throughout the book I found myself wandering why Pointing placed infuses on things like giant rodents that had been hunted into extension (Pointing, 35). If these giant rodents existed today we would probably be trying to get rid of them, so whose to say that the first humans did not do us a favor. While I am positive that the hunting done by the first humans caused us to lose large populations of majestic animals, the first humans had to provide food, shelter, and clothing for themselves. What if the first humans had not hunted or raped the earth of its bounty." They would have likely starved ...
