Atin_Fordo,
Yautja,
16 years ago
It only takes one Queen to create a colony, in the case of the aliens. The eggs seen in AvP were all created by the Queen after she was unfrozen and awoken. Basically, it's a rather simple matter. You find an alien hive, and exterminate or bypass all the aliens there, and extract either a Queen, or an egg that houses the special type of Facehugger that creates the Queen. The origin of the Queen in AvP is debatable, but one can safely assume it came directly from the Xeno homeworld.
However, it would be EXTREMELY old. In fact, I got a theory that the first ceremonial hunt was most likely not to exterminate all the aliens, as we see in flashbacks and the movie itself, but to capture a Queen alive.