Easter Island - All You Ever Wanted To Know About Easter Island.
Easter Island is Perhaps amongst the most out of the way islands in the world but over 1000 years ago a small canoe piloted by people of a distant land arrived there. As centuries progressed this small canoe group prospered and grew an amazing civilization on the remote island. Nobody knows why, but they carved huge stone statues out of volcano rocks. People are amazed when they see or hear about these monuments called moai. The people there went by the name Rapa Nui. From where did they hail and what accounted for their sudden disappearance? Science has studied a lot about the Easter Island mystery and as a result has solved or debunked some of the stranger ideas, but the mystery continues.Click through here for more info relating to tribal arm tattoos.
There is scientific proof for one of the more bazaar stories of the origin of the people of Easter Island. A Spanish ship called the San Lesmems disappeared without a trace near Tahiti in the mid 1500’s. Stories describe Basque survivors marrying and breeding with native Polynesians. These survivors or their descendants left Tahiti in the hopes of returning to Spain in the early 17th century they never made it. It’s interesting to note that genetic testing of some pure blooded Rapa Nui revealed Basque genetic material.
Easter Island is most known for 288 moai that once stood on ahu, giant stone platforms also found there. There are approximately 250 ahu platforms about one half mile apart in a nearly unbroken perimeter line all around the island. 600 incomplete moai statues can be found near the rocks where they were carved, or laying on roads apparently having been on their way to the coast to be placed on an ahu.
Volcanic stone from the Rano Raraku Volcano is the source of almost every one of the moai. The statues stand around 14 feet 6 inches high and weigh an average of 14 tons. Some of the larger ones top 33 feet high and weigh 80 tons, but one was found that was 65 feet high, still not fully carved from the rock, and would have weighed nearly 300 tons when completely finished. They were dragged to shore by 50-150 men, depending on the size of the statue, with logs used as rollers.
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Why the statues were created on Easter Island is still a mystery. Local practices may have evolved the idea of statue use seen on other Polynesian islands to the unique needs of the people of Easter Island.
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