Seagulls\owls\parrots, these were the food of the first Easter Islanders. There are also rats and seals because of its extreme proximity to Antarctica.

In short, when they first arrived on the island, the food of this group of islanders was a combination of meat and vegetables, mainly dolphins, which accounted for one-third of the food.

The whole state of society is very simple, and it belongs to the unique gathering and hunting life in the early stage of human development.

"But after more than 400 years, this good life of worry-free food and clothing has come to an end, and when most of the island's forests are cut down, they have not realized the seriousness of the problem, but feel that these spaces are too wasteful, and the desires of the flesh are satisfied, so they should start to pursue spiritual abundance."

"So the islanders began to carve huge stone statues from the tuff on the island, and the first seven stone statues about 10 meters tall were carved out of the ground, which were all brushed to face the sea, symbolizing the original seven leaders."

"At this time, the population of the island is already in the thousands, and more forests need to be cultivated, more boats need to be built to catch dolphins, and more houses are needed."

"And since the first seven stone statues were erected, there was faith on the island for the first time, that is, those stone statues, as long as people still have the physical strength, they spend on making stone statues."

"The stone needed for the statue is taken from the three extinct volcanoes on the island, and the tuff is softer and easier to carve."

"There is no metal on the island, and the best tool for processing it is obsidian, which can be found everywhere here."

Bi Fang squatted down, pulled the grass for a while, and took out a black rock, with rounded edges and saws, reflecting dark light, and extremely sharp.

Around the statues, the island's inhabitants were divided into factions, using different ideas to build the statues, and there were occasional battles for food and other resources.

The victorious faction will erect more and larger statues, and sometimes even tear down the statues of the defeated side. Knock down the stone statue of the opponent, which symbolizes absolute victory.

The size of the stone statue is getting bigger and bigger day by day, just like showing off your own mansion.

That's nothing, the real thing is that the population is growing, and the population even exceeded 10,000 between 1200 and 1500 AD, when the construction of stone statues was at its wildest.

A small island of more than 100 square kilometers is obviously difficult to afford to live in a hunter-gatherer society with such a large population.

To add insult to injury, or as a result, there are fewer and fewer palm trees on the island.

Palm trees are not cash crops, so they grow very slowly, taking up to two years from seed to germination, and 15 years from germination to growing into a tree over 10 meters tall.

They were cut down to make boats, houses, stone statues, fires for warmth, and seeds gnawed off by rats.

It was in 1650 A.D., when the population peaked at 20,000 people, that all the palm trees on Easter Island disappeared.

With the exception of palm trees, several other tall trees also disappeared during this period. The result of this is fatal.

The dolphin meat that people relied on for their livelihood was gone, because there were no trees to build new boats to hunt dolphins in the deep sea.

However, dolphins used to take up a small half of the food of the island's indigenous people.

Most of the island's birds are extinct, because there is no forest, the birds do not come here to make nests, and the remaining land birds are also eaten by the islanders.

The shellfish and conch that were not looked down upon at all in the past were also immediately wiped out.

In the future, the inhabitants of the island will have to rely entirely on agriculture, which used to be a supplement to gathering, but now the vegetarian foods of taro, bananas, and sweet potatoes have replaced the meat they used to eat.

The only protein that can be produced stably is eggs, and those chickens are descendants of chickens brought by the first ancestors who landed 1000 years ago, and if chickens had not been introduced in the first place, there may not have been a stable supply of protein after 1500.

At this time, the islanders are desperately trying to find something to eat.

The rats that destroy the palm trees are eaten up and food production drops dramatically. Resources are limited! Can't escape!

All want to survive! All that's left is to kill for resources!

Food is running out and the war is escalating, and the entire island, both finished and unfinished, is being torn down in the war.

The head of the statue was cut off, and the eyeballs that had been made of obsidian were cut off.

So much so that many of the stone statues that can be seen on Easter Island now only have high brow bones and no eyeballs in their eye sockets.

Accompanied by Bi Fang's narration, there is a desperate darkness in the flat tone. Many shuddered and got goosebumps all over their bodies. [What the hell...... It's kind of scary.]

[What hell on earth?] [Is this why humans are exploring the universe?]

[Damn, isn't the earth just an island?] It's just that it's very big and relatively resilient, and if humans don't point out the starry navigation technology, isn't it equivalent to the Easter Islanders who don't have palm trees to build ships?]

[Another pessimistic day]

[I'm still young, I'm only eighteen years old, why should I think about the future of humanity (woo woo)]

Everyone seemed to see a vibrant paradise in front of their eyes, but in the end, because of unbridled demands, one creature after another fell, and finally the whole island was left with only humans, killing each other.

From around 1500 years when the forest began to disappear to 1722, when the first Europeans arrived on the island, food shortages and wars caused the island's population to drop from 20,000 to more than 2,000.

The islanders are scrawny \ skinny and the social fabric is completely broken. The same kind even began to appear in pots and pans of food.

When the Dutch arrived on Easter Island in 1722, the guide brought by Tahiti heard a very vicious swear word: "Your mother's flesh is still embedded between my teeth!"

Bi Fang put the obsidian block in his backpack and stood up again.

"The current Easter Islanders no longer mention the glory of the past, and the worship of stone statues is already a thing of the past for them, and in the later stages of social collapse, they began to worship something new, called the Birdman."

On weekdays, many viewers would laugh when they hear this word, but now, they can't laugh anyway.

"Although the trees on the island could not build large ships, there were still more than enough carving handicrafts, and they used a tree called Melle to carve the image of a birdman, worshipping the big bird."

The collapse of society has made it impossible for the islanders to recast the glory of the stone statues more than ten meters high, and can only achieve inner satisfaction by carving some palm-sized stone statues of birdmen.

"Perhaps their motive for worshipping birdmen is the hope that one day they will be able to grow wings like birds and escape from this 'island of death'."

"Their desperation was already visible then, and there were many bird-headed reliefs beneath the cliffs on the island."