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The rock gardens had covered up to 21.1 square kilometers (8.1 square miles) and could have sustained up to 17,000 people, previous research suggested.That February 2013 finding bolstered the idea ...
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]
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 ...
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 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 ...
Aku-Aku: the Secret of Easter Island is a 1957 book by Thor Heyerdahl [1] published in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish, and in French and English the following year. The book describes the 1955–1956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition 's investigations of Polynesian history and culture at Easter Island , the Austral Islands of Rapa Iti ...
Ahu Vinapu is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Eastern Polynesia. The ceremonial center of Vinapu includes one of the larger ahu on Rapa Nui. The ahu exhibits extraordinary stonemasonry consisting of large, carefully fitted slabs of basalt. The American archaeologist, William Mulloy investigated the site in 1958.
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.