Log in Jeff Kelman 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to Jeff Kelman's post “Were the _Moai_ "toppled"...” Were the Moai "toppled" by people or were they "toppled" by natural causes (i.e. soft earth erosion etc.)? • (15 votes) Weston.T.Chris 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to Weston.T.Chris's post “I think a bit of both. Er...” I think a bit of both. Erosion and people doing unnecessary things. but I'm not an expert. (1 vote) Mary Miller 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to Mary Miller's post “Where is Easter Island?W...” Where is Easter Island? • (6 votes) trek 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to trek's post “Easter Island was named b...” Easter Island was named by Jacob Roggeveen (Dutch explorer) since his crew explored it on Easter Sunday of 1722. It lies nearly 2200 miles west of the coast of Chile. (12 votes) Vassiliana Mavriki 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to Vassiliana Mavriki's post “About the carvings on the...” About the carvings on the right ear of Hoa Hakananai'a , could this refer to the back ear as an erotogenous zone ? How are female vulva symbols used in Polynesian culture? • (5 votes) JayJay Fuller 7 years agoPosted 7 years ago. Direct link to JayJay Fuller's post “I believe that the image ...” I believe that the image of the vulva would suggest fertility. (1 vote) katie 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to katie's post “Easter IslandWhat is Eas...” Easter Island What is an ahu? • (2 votes) David Alexander 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “Almost all of you questio...” Almost all of you questions are answered here https://sacredsites.com/americas/chile/easter_island_facts.html (3 votes) Temilade Adepoju 9 years agoPosted 9 years ago. Direct link to Temilade Adepoju's post “Collapse what does that m...” Collapse what does that mean? • (2 votes) David Alexander 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “The environment could no ...” The environment could no longer support the life-forms that lived within it. Kind of like when the walls won't support the roof of a house. Everything falls apart. "collapse" (3 votes) moodybrendajuan 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to moodybrendajuan's post “why do they only look lik...” why do they only look like males?thats kinda sexist • (0 votes) Arthur Smith 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to Arthur Smith's post “A lot, but not all primit...” A lot, but not all primitive cultures are patriarchal, with masculine gods and ancestors. Sexism is a common trait in many if not all civilizations. (8 votes) Jin Park 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to Jin Park's post “Were the toppled Moai sta...” Were the toppled Moai statues ever re-erected? Do they stay toppled until now or were they displaced? • (2 votes) David Alexander 6 years agoPosted 6 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “some were, some weren't. ...” some were, some weren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai#Preservation_and_restoration (2 votes) Nadya Slack 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to Nadya Slack's post “What caused the collapse ...” What caused the collapse of their eco system and how did they move these statues? • (2 votes) David Alexander 8 years agoPosted 8 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “You have two questions. W...” You have two questions. What caused the collapse of the ecosystem was likely overpopulation. The people found a good place to live, they began to chop down the trees and eat the animals. After several hundred years, there wasn't enough forest for animals to breed, nor enough animals to eat. The essay notes at the end that even the birds nested only on safer offshore rocks and small islands (to be safe from the people who would raid the nests). (2 votes) foxie 2 years agoPosted 2 years ago. Direct link to foxie's post “is easter island still th...” is easter island still there? • (2 votes) David Alexander a year agoPosted a year ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “You can find it on a map ...” You can find it on a map at 27°7′S 109°22′W (1 vote) harukanosue 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to harukanosue's post “Was thins source reviewed” Was thins source reviewed • (2 votes) David Alexander 3 years agoPosted 3 years ago. Direct link to David Alexander's post “The article comes from th...” The article comes from the British Museum, which may have a cultural bias, but which is generally respected as not telling lies. (1 vote)Want to join the conversation?
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What happened on Easter Island Khan Academy? ›
In 1722, explorers happened upon this island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. When they arrived, they discovered over 800 giant statues and almost no people. This was strange, since the small number of people on the island couldn't possibly have built these statues—it would have taken a much larger civilization.
What does moai mean in Rapa Nui? ›Easter Island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai (meaning “statue”). The island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui. The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 C.E. until the second half of the seventeenth century.
What are the theories about the moai on Easter Island? ›The moai were likely not representations of aliens (as proposed by some authors) but played a role in religious rites. They are explained as holy sites to venerate the mana, the lifeforce of the ancestors, as burial sites, or as symbolic protectors of the island.
What happened to the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island? ›More than 1400 Rapanui islanders were kidnapped. Some were sold in Peru as domestic servants; others for manual labor on the plantations. Food was inadequate and discipline harsh; medical care was virtually non-existent. Islanders sickened and died.
Why is Easter Island in danger? ›Easter Island is located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, and as such, is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, particularly sea level rise. If sea levels rise by just one meter by 2100, as is predicted by some scientists, then Easter Island will be almost completely submerged.
Has the mystery of Easter Island been solved? ›The findings suggest that Rapa Nui's moai and ahu were valuable beyond their ancestral significance to the island's early people, the study authors concluded. “Building the statues wasn't inexplicable behavior, but something that was not only culturally significant but central to their survival,” Lipo said.
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Who owns Easter Island? ›Easter Island is a small island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean that belongs to Chile. The island is one of the most isolated places in the world, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
Who put the moai on Easter Island? ›The most recognizable art forms from Easter Island are its colossal stone figures, or moai, images of ancestral chiefs whose supernatural power protected the community. Between roughly 1100 and 1650, Rapa Nui carvers created some 900 of these sculptures, nearly all of which are still in situ.
Can you touch the moai on Easter Island? ›You're not allowed to touch the Moai
The Moai are protected by local law and touching one even comes with a fine; one tourist was fined more than $17,000 USD!
What is the DNA of Easter Island? ›
The results found that people on Easter Island and four other Polynesian islands have small amounts of DNA inherited from people who lived in Colombia about 800 years ago—specifically, they were Zenú, a pre-Columbian culture, which lived on the Caribbean side of northern Colombia, who created rake-like patterns across ...
Have any moai been removed from Easter Island? ›Since the removal from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 of the moai now displayed at the British Museum, a total of 12 moai are known to have been removed from Easter Island and to remain overseas.
Do Rapa Nui people still exist? ›The Rapa Nui, also known as Pascuense in Spanish, are a Polynesian people, the majority of whom live on Rapa Nui/ Easter Island. A few hundred live on mainland Chile and in Tahiti. As of 2013, only 2,553 people self-identified as Rapa Nui, comprising about 0.3 per cent of Chile's total indigenous population.
What was the tragedy of Easter Island? ›The most striking story of Easter Island, however, is its collapse. Easter Island is one of the most extreme examples of deforestation in the world: the entire forest is gone and all tree species extinct. Evidence suggests forest harvesting started around 900 and peaked in 1400.
Why did the people destroy the moai? ›The Moais are the monolithic human structures located at the Easter Island. These structures are carved by the Rapa Nui people. There were about 1000 such human figures at the island. These stone structures got destroyed when the native people ended in an war within themselves.
What happen on Easter Island? ›The soil was starved of nutrients, leaving a barren rock-strewn land. Then, this theory goes, things got worse. - The scarcity of resources resulted in a societal collapse. The island erupted into intertribal warfare and led to a very impoverished population living on a barren island.
What did they find on Easter Island? ›Archaeology of Easter Island. The island is famous for its gigantic stone statues, of which there are more than 600, and for the ruins of giant stone platforms (ahus) with open courtyards on their landward sides, some of which show masterly construction.
What happened to the animals on Easter Island? ›Soon land birds went extinct and migratory bird numbers were severely reduced, thus spelling an end for Easter Island's forests. Already under intense pressure by the human population for firewood and building material, the forests lost their animal pollinators and seed dispersers with the disappearance of the birds.
Why is Easter Island a mysterious place? ›Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel of human ingenuity — and their meaning a source of some mystery.