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All You Ever Desired To Know Relating To Easter Island.
Over a millennium ago Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world, became a destination for passengers of a double hull canoe. In the next few hundred years an amazing civilization grew all alone there. For their own still unknown purposes they decided to carve statues from volcanic rocks. The statues, called moai, are amongst the most amazing ancient monuments ever seen. The people there went by the name Rapa Nui.
What was the identity of these people and what happened to them? Questions remain even though much research has been done which has settled, or at least ruled out, some of the weirder theories. Click through here for additional info relating to tribal tatoos.
Science supports one of the strangest theories as to the origins of the Easter Island people. 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.
Some of the offspring of these people endeavored to travel to Spain in 1600, but never arrived and never returned home. Basque genes were found in some Rapa Nui people.
Easter Island is most renowned for inhabitants that are its huge stone statues, moai, at least 288 once standing on gigantic stone platforms named ahu. These 250 ahu form a line all around the island, each one placed about mile from the next. Either in quarries or on roads leading from the quarries to the coastal areas where complete status are found, lie another 600 incomplete moai. You can obtain complimentary invaluable info on forearm tattoo here.
Almost every moai is chiseled from volcanic stone from Rano Raraku. These statues average 14 tons in weight and nearly 14 feet tall. 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. You should obtain heaps of complementary valuable information about forearm tattoo here.
Scientists who study Easter Island can’t decisively determine the purpose of these moai statues. People think their construction may have come from a seed rooted in similar statue creation seen around Polynesia, but which took its own direction when practiced on Easter Island.
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