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The Marquesas Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean located in French Polynesia. The Marquesas are believed to have been settled by Polynesians more than two thousand years ago, probably from the islands of Tonga and Samoa. Contact with Europeans for the first time in 1595 when a Spanish explorer gave the island its present name. France took the group in 1842.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Marquesas Islands have been severely affected by Western diseases, especially smallpox, causing the population decline of about 100,000 in the sixteenth century to only 20,000 of the 1870 and 2000 only in the twentieth century began. The population current islands is about 8,600. Most of the Marquesas Islands are still sparsely populated at present.
One of the most remote island groups the world, the Marquesas Islands are about 850 miles northeast of Tahiti, and almost three thousand miles from western Mexico, the nearest continental land mass. There are two island groups: the northern group around Nuku Hiva, the largest island and the southern group clustered around the island of Hiva Oa. With a combined area of 405 square miles the Marquesas are among the largest groups in French Polynesia. All except one of the islands were created by volcanic activity.
While languages Official French Polynesia are French and Tahitian, Marquesan native language still spoken widely in the islands. This group of islands was once a major cultural center of eastern Polynesia and civilization. Several other islands of Polynesia, including Tahiti and Easter Island, is believed to have been resolved by travelers Marquesas perhaps due to food shortages resulting from overcrowding or almost constant war in previous centuries.
The culture of the Marquesas is known for his long history of complex geometric tattoos, often covering the entire bodies of men and women. Today, the Marquesas island culture is a mix of ancient traditions Marquesas and strong influences of Tahiti and France. The abundance of basaltic rock, due to the volcanic nature of ancient Marquesan islands allowed to create tools stone carving and stone monoliths now known as tiki. The Marquesans were known as some of the best carvers of Polynesia, with both wood and designs stone for tools, weapons and artistic sculptures.
Many of the myths surrounding carved tiki figures by the ancient inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands have forgotten in time. It is believed that tiki figures are linked to creation myths of ancient culture central island. Tiki can represent the original ancestor of man, other Islands I think Tiki Marquesas, the first man, created in the island of Nuku Hiva for Atea and Atanu, their children. The people of Nuku Hiva his image carved in stone, using these tikis in their worship. The Marquesan terraces built of stone, known as me'ae, when the participation of tiki gods. This myth of creation is very similar to that made by cultures traditional in other islands of Polynesia, and even tiki gods carved look very similar from island to island.
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