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- 2. Easter Island, Spanish Isla de Pascua, also called Rapa Nui, Chilean dependency in the eastern Pacific
- 3. Moai statues Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these are what this island
- 4. Moai statues Moai statues were built to honor chieftain or other important people who had passed
- 5. Moai statues One of the biggest Easter Island mysteries is how stone age tribes could succeed
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Слайд 2Easter Island, Spanish Isla de Pascua, also called Rapa Nui, Chilean dependency
Easter Island, Spanish Isla de Pascua, also called Rapa Nui, Chilean dependency
in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world. It is famous for its giant stone statues.
Easter Island
Слайд 3Moai statues
Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these are
Moai statues
Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these are
what this island is famous for. The moais were built in approximately 1400 - 1650 A.D. by the natives of this island also known as Rapa Nui.
There are around 1000 statues, up to 86 tons tons in weight and 10 m in height, though average is around half of that. 95% of the moais were carved from the volcano Rano Raraku.
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Moai statues were built to honor chieftain or other important people
Moai statues
Moai statues were built to honor chieftain or other important people
who had passed away. They were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which are tombs for the people that the statues represented.
The mind boggles that humans from a stone-age civilization could carve such massive statues from rock and transport them around the island, one thousand years ago. A stunning archaeological discovery was made in May 2012, where archaeologists excavated around the statues to discover the Easter Island heads have bodies!
The mind boggles that humans from a stone-age civilization could carve such massive statues from rock and transport them around the island, one thousand years ago. A stunning archaeological discovery was made in May 2012, where archaeologists excavated around the statues to discover the Easter Island heads have bodies!
Слайд 5Moai statues
One of the biggest Easter Island mysteries is how stone age
Moai statues
One of the biggest Easter Island mysteries is how stone age
tribes could succeed in transporting 50+ ton moai statues kilometers across hilly terrain. There are several transportation theories, some of which are more generally accepted than others.