anyone has any info about: EASTER ISLAND and it´s MOAI´S?

Question

I´M WRITING A SCRIPT FOR AN ANIMATED MOVIE FOR 2009.
I NEED ANY INFO Y CAN GIVE ME ABOUT THE ISLAND, THE MOAI´S, THEIR GODS, ISLANDERS, THEIR CULTURE, ANYTHING
THANKS

Answer 1

Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui ("Big Rapa") or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. Located 3,600 km (2,237 statute miles) west of continental Chile and 2,075 km (1,290 statute miles) east of Pitcairn Island, it is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world. It is located at 27°09′S 109°27′W, with a latitude close to that of the Chilean city of Copiapó, north of Santiago. The island is approximately triangular in shape, with an area of 163.6 km² (63 sq. miles), and a population of 3,791 (2002 census), 3,304 of which live in the capital of Hanga Roa. Easter is made up of three volcanoes: Poike, Rano Kau and Terevaka. The island is famous for its numerous moai, the stone statues now located along the coastlines. Administratively, it is a province (containing a single municipality) of the Chilean Valparaíso Region. The standard time is six hours behind UTC (UTC-6) (five hours behind including one hour of daylight saving time).



Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues are all monolithic, that is, carved in one piece. They may weigh more than 20 tons and be more than 20 feet tall. The largest moai erected, "Paro", was almost 10 metres high and weighed 75 tonnes. [1] One unfinished sculpture has been found that would have been 69 feet tall and would have weighed about 270 tons.
Less than one-fifth of the statues that were moved to ceremonial sites and then erected once had red stone cylinders (pukau) placed on their heads. These "topknots," as they are often called, were carved in a single quarry known as Puna Pau. About 95% of the 887 moai known to date were carved out of compressed volcanic ash at Rano Raraku, where 394 moai still remain visible today. Recent GPS mapping in the interior will certainly add additional moai to that count. The quarries in Rano Raraku appear to have been abandoned abruptly, with many incomplete statues still in situ. However, the pattern of work is very complex and is still being studied. Practically all of the completed moai that were moved from Rano Raraku and erected upright on ceremonial platforms were subsequently toppled by native islanders in the period after construction ceased.

Answer 2

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island interior the southeastern Pacific Ocean, on the southeastern maximum factor of the Polynesian triangle. a particular territory of Chile that became annexed in 1888, Easter Island is mythical for its 887 extant huge statues, referred to as moai (suggested /?mo?.a?/), created by using the early Rapanui human beings. that's a international history internet site (as desperate by using UNESCO) with lots of the island risk-free interior Rapa Nui national Park. in recent cases the island has served as a cautionary tale with reference to the cultural and environmental disadvantages of overexploitation. Ethnographers and archaeologists additionally blame ailments carried by using eu colonizers and slave raiding[4] of the 1860s for devastating the close by peoples.

Answer 3

You will find a lot of interesting information in the book "Collapse" by Jared Diamond (chapter 2).