Moai

Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the…

The history of Easter Island, its statues and its peoples, has long been shrouded in mystery. Some have suggested that aliens marooned on earth planted the statues as signals to their fellow aliens to rescue them. Others have said that the statues were constructed by a great race of guilders that were stranded on the island and built them before being rescued. Still others are convinced that an ancient society with the capability of…

Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the…

ear off a moai. An islander saw the man, fleeing from the beach with a piece of the ear in his hand, he was then found and arrested for seven years with a fine of $17,00 USD None of the heads were standing when scientists first arrived. All the heads standing today have been re-stood up. Easter Island heads have full bodies underground There is an ugly duckling on easter island his name is Tukuturi he looks a lot more human than the others. Tukuturi is far smaller than the other moai and…

of Easter Island Every year, hundreds of tourist travel across the Pacific Ocean to visit a small, barren grass island. They do not travel to see grass they travel such a far distance to get a closer look at the giant stone-heads, call moai. These mysterious moai made by the ancient Rapanuian people hold a similar fascination like the Stone Hinge in England. They beg the questions when, how, why, and who? History teaches us through Easter Island that respecting our environment can help with the…

Each Moai figure. Like a different snowflake in a blizzard. Not one figure is alike. All 887 statues are unique. The history, description, and creation of the Moai strikes confusion and amazement into the souls of scientists, tourists, and the people of Rapa Nui. (Easter Island) Tenrandomfacts.com states, “It is believed that the native people created the Moai statues in honor of male ancestors.” These statues were made of stone by the native tribes of Easter Island.…

The moai statues lie on an island in Chile, commonly known as Easter island or Rapu Nui to its earlier people. The island is 64 square miles, and located 2,500 miles from Tahiti and 2.300 miles from Chile. Each statue ranges from 12 to 14 feet tall, and weighs approximately a ton. Although no written history lies on the land, historians believe the statues represented important people such as ancestors, chiefs or worshipped deity’s. The people of the island were sea farers who most likely…

Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia he 887 giant moai statues on Easter Island have turned one of the most isolated islands in the world into one of the most well known—and most mysterious. With each year, more theories arise concerning the island, the statues, and the Rapa Nui people who once lived there.Aug 19, 2014 In the early ’80s, researchers tried to recreate some of the statues and move them using only tools that the islanders had to their…

place with mysteries and myths. People never stopped showing their interest and curiosity to this small island which lied so far from every continent. How did its civilization collapse? How could the Easter Islanders build those giant statues -- the moai? Did aliens help them? By publishing his book Collapse, Jared Diamond offers an explanation to the public about mysteries on Easter Island. Within a few years, his theory has been accepted widely. However, we can see that there are obvious flaws…

and first contact with the western world, ocurred a growth of population (up to 10,000), the creation of the moais, and also civil wars, cannibalism and deforestation of the land. The first European arriving to the island was Jacob Roggeveen who got to Rapa Nui in Easter of 1722 and named it Easter Island. Inter-clan wars began a few decades later, and resulted in the destruction on many moai in 1864. In 1888 Chile annexed the island, which nowadays continues being a territory of the nation. In…