Rano Raraku

effectively stop the same mistakes we made in the past from reoccurring, such as the ones made on Easter Island. The year is now 1200 CE. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies an island known as Rapa Nui or Easter Island. Civilians gather in the Rano Raraku quarry, known for supplying rock for the ancestral statues – called “Moai.” These statues could be seen the same as our twenty first century technology, both are extraordinary accomplishments. These statues range in size from “15 to 20 feet tall

Easter Island What happened to Easter Island? Oliver Kirby - 14 November 2017Easter Island My name is Oliver Kirby and I am a historian. For many years now I have been deeply invested in the study of South American and Polynesian history. The magazine ‘The Good Weekend’ approached me with an opportunity to write an article discussing the rise and expansion of Easter Island and then its decline. I will also be discussing if what happened to Easter Island is a microcosm of what might happen to

place these large statues in their intended locations, but the most commonly accepted theory is that the people used long pieces of ropes to drag these statues to their places. The Moai statues were carved from the solid volcanic ash of the volcano Rano Raraku. They were then taken to quarries on top of the volcanoes, where the people used ropes to hold the statues at a 45° angle so they could be carved even more in more detail.

speculations linger in the minds of archaeologists and historians of today. The most plausible theory to date, after archaeologists performed a demonstrative experiment, concludes that the Moai were built inside quarries dug into the side of the Rano Raraku volcano.on the eastern edge of the island. They began as very large, rectangular stone blocks, laying out flat with a base below them to hold them to the bedrock. In this phase, a master carver and his crew of approximately 15 carvers would begin

The Easter Island heads. Rapa Nui has been a place of mystery since it was discovered in 1772. The name “Easter Island” is the European name given by Jacob Roggeveen. The mystery on Easter Island is the moai, otherwise known as the heads of Easter Island. How the moai got there is still in debate but there have been multiple proven theories of how they got there. The three main theories I will discuss are the rope theory, the wooden sledge theory and the walking theory. The rope theory is one of

The Rapa Nui people are form Easter Island. Today you wont find any of those people. The Rapa Nui people are responsible for the statues that we see today on Easter Island. The Rapa Nui people are also responsible for the destruction of their own land. There believe that their religion would take care of them lead to the destruction of their land. The Rapa Nui people are responsible for the way that Easter Island is seen today, not nature, and because of what they did they are no longer around today

How an ancient, massive statue called a moai has moved from the quarries to its ahu has many people questioning, how did the ancient natives of Easter Island do it? Over the years, archeologists and engineers have tried to answer this question. However all theories of these great occurrences have limitations. This may be because no one truly knows how the ancients of Easter Island lived and how advance their culture may have been. Another reason for these limitations is the natural resources that

1) What happened to make Easter Island unsustainable? To make Easter Island unsustainable the islanders became obsessed with making statues. Moving the statues was very difficult, to do, so the Islanders had to construct roads to drag the statues. To do so they had to cut down trees. Eventually, the Islanders ended up cutting down all their trees. That meant that the rains would wash away their soil.(No vegetation) Also, once that happened the islanders had no more canoes to use to catch fish. Which

Similarities and differences are what make things so interesting. Would you be happy if everyone was the same. Every looked the same, and liked the same things and hated the same things. No you wouldn’t because you would want to be you and no one can tell you what you want to be or what you don’t want to be. Even the buildings you make would be the same from a normal house to a normal office building. The “Panama Canal” was one of the most useful canals ever built and they were made to for one reason

The Choices Societies Make and the Challenges Surrounding Them The choices the Greenland Norse, the people of Easter Island, and the people of Haiti made directly contributed to their societal collapse. Their environmental fragility advanced their downfall, but ultimately their poor decision-making led to their collapse. The Greenland Norse’s and people of Easter Island’s incorrect choices were mostly due to social challenges and reluctance to abandon traditions, but the incorrect choices of the