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On Monday, Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano erupted, causing a wildfire that swept through the Rano Raraku area and damaged the island's iconic stone heads. Rano Raraku is also known as the ...
The view that the island was once home to a population of several thousand people stems from the assumption it would have taken large numbers to build and move the 800-plus huge stone statues or ...
One of the highest-quality examples of Easter Island stone masonry is the rear wall of the ahu at Vinapu. Made without mortar by shaping hard basalt rocks of up to 7,000 kg (6.9 long tons; 7.7 short tons) to match each other exactly, it has a superficial similarity to some Inca stone walls in South America. [135]
The statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining "moai" and the dialectal Japanese word moyai ( 催合い ) 'helping each other' .
The globally famous giant stone statues of Easter Island are the world’s best-known Polynesian monumental works of art. Although only around 600 completed Easter Island statues survive intact or ...
Pu o Hiro (which means Hiro's Trumpet) is a stone on Easter Island that was used as a musical instrument by the ancient Rapa Nui. [1] [2] It is also known as Maea Puhi ("stone to blow" or "wind stone"). [1] [3] When blown through its main hole, it would produce a sound that resembled a trumpet. [1] It was used to invoke Hiro, the deity of rain ...
Map of the location of ꞌOrongo on Easter Island. Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of low, sod-covered, windowless, round-walled buildings with even lower doors positioned on the high south-westerly tip of the large volcanic caldera called Rano Kau.
The Easter Island heads are located in the Rapa Nui National Park, according to the park’s website. The park has 887 Moai statues and 300 ceremonial platforms spread across the island, remnants ...