THE RAPA NUI The Rapa Nui In this paper I will discuss the Rapa Nui and their arrival on Easter Island. I will cover the basic history of the Rapa Nui and their discovery and habitation of Easter Island. Further, I will review topics such as culture, marriage and family, religion, traditions and more. Rapa Nui is more commonly known as Easter Island, a province of Chile. Its official Spanish name is Isla de Pascua. It is one of the most isolated inhabited islands on earth, located in the
Island, also known as Rapa Nui. Once ashore, these settlers began collecting resources and learned to survive with no help from the outside, stranded on an island in the middle of the Pacific. They created methods to hunt, fish, make clothing, and cook food properly. In addition, the people of Rapa Nui also separated into different groups or tribes. These tribes coexisted on the island for some time – until civil wars broke out across the island. The inhabitants of Rapa Nui disappeared from the
undertook the creation of your selected monumental work of architecture and sculpture despite the difficulties of accomplishing them? What can we assume about a work of art without such knowledge? The moai statues of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, are some of the most mysterious structures ever seen (Cothren & Stokstad, 2011, p.873). Easter Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. It is 2,300 miles from the coast of South America and 1,200 miles from Pitcairn Island. The
In ancient Egypt, the Egyptians would trade with the Mediterranean so the Egyptians would learn from their ideas and methods. The culture is all about eternity and the afterlife. It was believed that the pharaohs also ruled with gods which made the Egyptians where they would ensure the pharaohs afterlife with all the great things he had while alive. The Egyptians would bury the Pharaohs belongings with him and would even go to the extreme where they killed servants and family members to be buried
explains why and how the Easter Island people built the great stone carvings. 1. Facts Easter Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world leading to the lack of knowledge on the stone carvings and people located there. But why did the Rapa Nui leave their homeland, and did they mean to discover Easter Island? These incredible stone carvings are known as the moai ("Mysterious Places: Explore Easter Island in Words and Pictures."). Most moai are not heads, however, but full heads and torsos
most remote from other lands place on the globe. This - Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a small, hilly and now almost treeless island of volcanic origin, rising to a distant geological epoch (Tertiary) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, lies under 27 ° 0930 "w. W. 2B14 and 109 ° 's . etc. Rapa Nui is an extreme outpost in the east of the Polynesians from the nearest island to the west - Pitcairn Islands Rapa Nui separated 1,800 kilometers from Mangareva Islands - 2600
Hokule’a’s voyage to Rapa Nui. Before this voyage, a popular theory by Andrew Sharp was that Polynesian settlement was accidental (Finney page 172). Finney sought to disprove this theory with the Hokule’a. Each voyage throughout the Polynesian archipelago proved that Polynesian voyagers were not “hapless, castaways” (Para. 3). The last voyage to close the “Polynesian Trianngle” was Rapa Nui (Page 175). According to Nainoa Thompson (a navigator), the problem with voyaging to Rapa Nui was the lack of navigationally
In easter island the population of Rapa Nui was too many which means that each family made a head for there religion depleting their resources affecting the population of the Rapa Nui (History.com Staff).In the Tragedy of the Commons article Hardin says “To live, any organism must have a source of energy” (Hardin 1243). In the lorax the pollution in the lakes
In 1,850 A.D. the population was decimated to mere 111 sick and starving islanders, and for some reason all of the trees were gone. It is believed that the Rapa Nui cut all the islands trees down to aid in the sculpting and production of the massive Moai statues. The declination of trees and overall island life is what escalated the islanders to start fighting each other. The inhabitants had spread out and made
The Different Theories of Easter Island’s Collapse Easter Island, or as some would call it “Rapa Nui,” was one of the most isolated islands in the world that was inhabited by humans. The island does not have a lot of wood and other resources and yet, when the first travelers discovered the island, it was full of huge carved stones statues. Around the twentieth century they discovered that when the first settlers came to the island, it was rich with resources and bountiful land. The first settlers
it could have been realized before the whole forest was demolished. For Easter Island, the resources were the animals they hunted and the plant-life. When transporting the Moai they must clear the pathway of trees and logs for rolling them. So the Rapa Nui ended up cutting down many trees. And for other inventions and supplies needed to be built, they used wood. Eventually, the island became a treeless wasteland over
along with the ocean, provide fertile and rich nutrition to the landscape, which allowed a bountiful supply of trees to be made. These features would have attracted many settlers. In fact, the natural aspects of this island are the reason that the Rapa Nui people came and were able to make such enormous replicas of their
Erica Brucker Humanities 106 Professor Ayala 07/16/2017 Introduction On August 13th, 2017, my best friend Tina and I will be traveling to Santiago, Chile. We wanted to plan trip before fall semester of college starts August 21st. Tina and I will be traveling by plane leaving August 3rd and returning August 19th. We chose Santiago because we wanted to explore somewhere we had never been. We saw pictures that were beautiful and found that Santiago was a safe place to visit. According to the Safe Cities
competition is where each clan selected a representative to swim to the islets where the birds nested. They are to find and egg and swim back the first one back with an unbroken egg becomes the birdman. Another competition is during Tapati Rapa Nui - Rapa Nui is where guys race with heavy loads on their backs to try to win points for a girl, out of many girls, who want to be crowned festival queen. Some islanders practice the custom of elongating their earlobes. This was done by piercing the ear
Colin Ashworth Schweizer LLEA 371 22 November 2016 The Evolution of the Hokulea The story of the Hokulea, a model of the first canoes that brought the first Polynesians to Hawaii, is a story that restores cultural pride and history to Hawaiians. Her legacy was almost extinct, but survived and restored the relationship that society has with its island home. More than 600 years had gone by without seeing one of these canoes, until artist Herb Kane thought to build a sailing canoe just like the ones
Who first discovered, explored and settled in the pacific Namaskaram and Ni sa bula vinaka. Sincere greeting to Miss Betty. I would like to welcome you on the journey of who first discovered, explored and settled the pacific island. The Pacific Ocean which is the largest ocean in the earth, covering 165.2 million square km. larger than all the lands combined. “over 1000 years ago, the islands of Polynesia were explored and settled by the navigators who used only the waves, the stars and the flights
The Great Chilean Earthquake, considered one of the largest registered in history happened on a Sunday of March 22, 1960 at around 3:11pm local time in Chile. Its epicenter was registered near the neighborhoods of the city of Valdivia, Chile and had a magnitude of 9.6 on the Richter scale. After the main shock, a series of major Earthquakes were registered between May 21 and June 6 that affected much of Southern Chile. The quake was felt in different parts of the planet and produced a tsunami that
Chile When considering a vacation in Southern America, you should definitely consider Chile as an interesting destination. Chile is the world’s longest country. Located on the volcanic and highly seismic Pacific Ring of Fire, the coastline extends over 2,672 miles and is never more than 117 miles wide. The world’s driest desert, majestic mountains, spectacular glaciers and fjords, and imposing volcanos all make up the geography and environment found nowhere else place in the world. Food is an integral
One source of great mortality and morbidity in Europe and North America is the cardiovascular disease, Atherosclerosis. It is recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease of the intermediate and large arteries characterized by the thickening of the arterial wall and is the primary cause of coronary and cerebrovascular heart disease (Wilson, 2005). It accounts for 4.35 million deaths in Europe and 35% death in the UK each year. Mortality rate are generally higher in men than pre-menopausal woman.