Easter Island Essay
Easter Island is about 2,000 miles from any population center. So why should you come here? The views are so beautiful. There are many mysteries to be solved about Easter Island. Easter Island is located around the South Pacific Ocean. Easter Island has a very interesting and intriguing history to many people. It is a small and isolated island in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about sixty-three square miles. The nearest place that has a population is Chile, which is more than 2,300 miles away. Then, the next closest place is Tahiti, about 2,500 miles northwest. Some think that the Polynesian seafarers were the first people on the island, while others think it was people from Peru. There are many similarities between the Rapanui
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They started doing experiments after experiments to figure how they moved the statues on the island. Once they tried to make the statues ‘‘walk,’’ and they chanted “heave-ho,” and that ended up working because the statues were “Engineered to walk.” Another person tried moving them by putting the statues on flat boards, and then rolled them over circular logs. They could have moved the statues either way because they were both engineered to walk, but due to the deforestation, it could have been the second way just as easily. Archaeologists just recently found about 500 stone tools, ranging from big, heavy picks, to fine obsidian and basalts tools. The bigger heavy tools were used to carve out the head and body. The smaller and finer ones were used to create features on the stones. Archaeologists have also found a petrograph of a Polynesian style canoe under on of the heads. That indicated it was meant to identify the statue as belonging to a group, subgroup, or the family the carvers came from. The statues are said to have honored the ancestors, chiefs, or other important figures. Some of the statues were no more than six feet in height, while others were as big as thirty-two feet. There are large heads perched on top of their torso and thighs. On the head there are eyes, pursed lips, and ears. Some ears are short, while others are long. Some believe that the features reflected early
They started doing experiments after experiments to figure how they moved the statues on the island. Once they tried to make the statues ‘‘walk,’’ and they chanted “heave-ho,” and that ended up working because the statues were “Engineered to walk.” Another person tried moving them by putting the statues on flat boards, and then rolled them over circular logs. They could have moved the statues either way because they were both engineered to walk, but due to the deforestation, it could have been the second way just as easily. Archaeologists just recently found about 500 stone tools, ranging from big, heavy picks, to fine obsidian and basalts tools. The bigger heavy tools were used to carve out the head and body. The smaller and finer ones were used to create features on the stones. Archaeologists have also found a petrograph of a Polynesian style canoe under on of the heads. That indicated it was meant to identify the statue as belonging to a group, subgroup, or the family the carvers came from. The statues are said to have honored the ancestors, chiefs, or other important figures. Some of the statues were no more than six feet in height, while others were as big as thirty-two feet. There are large heads perched on top of their torso and thighs. On the head there are eyes, pursed lips, and ears. Some ears are short, while others are long. Some believe that the features reflected early