Yes. The most important for me
is to understand the people.
-Yeah. -Is to understand how people arrive,
is to understand how people adapted to this island
because as a human, we cannot do anything without plants.
In the study of the different food we have, the result came…
…with the banana.
They found the banana on the island 3,000 years ago.
Yes. Yes.
It's not coming by the birds.
It's not by the sea.
The banana had to be planted by another human being.
So that's the reason it's telling you
that in Rapa Nui, there is a different period of people arrived.
And it's a huge surprise for everybody.
It's changed, a little bit, the history.
The soil is not lying.
We didn't think that the banana was so important.
We don't know. But that's the reason we should continue to study.
The rongorongo are very interesting and very important in our culture.
Yeah, it's unique. There's no rongorongo on other islands.
The rongorongo system is very complex.
You need many elements, you know, peace, water, food, society, you know.
This is a very intellectual, complex process.
The people don't learn to read.
-They learn only the song. -Mm-hmm.
And for a long time, the song continued.
Agricultural system.
-Yeah. -And the rules for navigation.
The inventory to the different genealogical lines.
The territory owners, things like this.
For me, the rongorongo,
maybe it's the most important thing made by our Tupuna, our ancestors.
Many people think that it was military construction.
Only Spaniards or conquistadors told them it was a military fortress, but it wasn't.
It was a holy place, a temple, to celebrate the rituals and ceremonies.
This could be considered, um, lost technology.
My passion lies in antiquities of human origin.
And this is reflected in the stone
which is the oldest witness that exists in history.
It is not possible to make this marvel with chisel technology
and a builder's kit
or to calculate the perfect precision
that exists in this type of expression.
This architecture does not correspond to the Incas.
The Incas did not use this polygonal, cushioned architecture.
The Incas have another type of architecture,
which is characterized by right angles.
The history of Cusco does not only go back to the Incas,
but much further back.
There are things that are impossible
for more modern civilizations.
These are more ancient
and prove that moldable stone was used.