Rano Raraku

effectively stop the same mistakes we made in the past from reoccurring, such as the ones made on Easter Island. The year is now 1200 CE. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies an island known as Rapa Nui or Easter Island. Civilians gather in the Rano Raraku quarry, known for supplying rock for the ancestral statues – called “Moai.” These statues could be seen the same as our twenty first century technology, both are extraordinary accomplishments. These statues range in size from “15 to 20 feet tall

Easter Island What happened to Easter Island? Oliver Kirby - 14 November 2017Easter Island My name is Oliver Kirby and I am a historian. For many years now I have been deeply invested in the study of South American and Polynesian history. The magazine ‘The Good Weekend’ approached me with an opportunity to write an article discussing the rise and expansion of Easter Island and then its decline. I will also be discussing if what happened to Easter Island is a microcosm of what might happen to

place these large statues in their intended locations, but the most commonly accepted theory is that the people used long pieces of ropes to drag these statues to their places. The Moai statues were carved from the solid volcanic ash of the volcano Rano Raraku. They were then taken to quarries on top of the volcanoes, where the people used ropes to hold the statues at a 45° angle so they could be carved even more in more detail.

speculations linger in the minds of archaeologists and historians of today. The most plausible theory to date, after archaeologists performed a demonstrative experiment, concludes that the Moai were built inside quarries dug into the side of the Rano Raraku volcano.on the eastern edge of the island. They began as very large, rectangular stone blocks, laying out flat with a base below them to hold them to the bedrock. In this phase, a master carver and his crew of approximately 15 carvers would begin

How an ancient, massive statue called a moai has moved from the quarries to its ahu has many people questioning, how did the ancient natives of Easter Island do it? Over the years, archeologists and engineers have tried to answer this question. However all theories of these great occurrences have limitations. This may be because no one truly knows how the ancients of Easter Island lived and how advance their culture may have been. Another reason for these limitations is the natural resources that

The Easter Island heads. Rapa Nui has been a place of mystery since it was discovered in 1772. The name “Easter Island” is the European name given by Jacob Roggeveen. The mystery on Easter Island is the moai, otherwise known as the heads of Easter Island. How the moai got there is still in debate but there have been multiple proven theories of how they got there. The three main theories I will discuss are the rope theory, the wooden sledge theory and the walking theory. The rope theory is one of

The Rapa Nui people are form Easter Island. Today you wont find any of those people. The Rapa Nui people are responsible for the statues that we see today on Easter Island. The Rapa Nui people are also responsible for the destruction of their own land. There believe that their religion would take care of them lead to the destruction of their land. The Rapa Nui people are responsible for the way that Easter Island is seen today, not nature, and because of what they did they are no longer around today

Easter Island, a mysterious and intriguing land lies on Chilean territory in the South Pacific ocean. The Polynesian people discovered an island that can allow researchers and linguistics to dive in and dig up remains and stories of the past. Easter Island is an isolated historical place that boomed in population and thrived in culture. The name Easter Island was born from the first European, Jacob Roggeveen, to arrive on Easter Sunday in the year 1722. The islander’s culture left a legacy that was

The small, isolated Rapa Nui Island—or, Easter Island—began its history of human-habitation with difficulty. Settlers were 3,000 kilometers away from other settlements, native plants and animals were limited, and its geographic location make the island subject to El Nino’s varying conditions (Hunt and Lipo 2007). Despite obstacles unique to Rapa Nui, as compared to its Polynesian neighbors, the people of Rapa Nui were successful before collapse, surviving as “one of the world’s most remote human

W4A1 Question 1: a. Why do you believe each culture undertook the creation of your selected monumental work of architecture and sculpture despite the difficulties of accomplishing them? What can we assume about a work of art without such knowledge? The moai statues of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, are some of the most mysterious structures ever seen (Cothren & Stokstad, 2011, p.873). Easter Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. It is 2,300 miles from the coast of South