Easter
Island
Essential
Questions:
1. What makes Easter Island so strange
and mysterious?
2. Why do
people still discuss and visit Easter Island today?
3. What
makes Easter Island so intriguing?
Located in
the South Pacific, this triangular island filled with statues holds mystery and
debate. Explore this topic and find out
what theories and speculations surround this fascinating location.
Research the history of Easter Island. Find as many facts as possible. Use the following to guide your blog comments: Who formed these
statues? For what purpose? How were they able to transport these massive
statues around the island? What happened
to the inhabitants?
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The Easter Island statues are very mysterious. The tribe who built them all died off. But there are many theories about Easter Island. My personal theory is that the people who built this worshiped a god that looked similar to the statues. How they moved the rock for the statue is unknown. How i think they moved the rock was with a system of people who would bring the rock to the next person until they got to Easter Island. Then once they got it there, which I am sure would take a long time, they could build the godlike statues. What makes it so intriguing is that no one knows for sure how they go the rock to Easter Island. Since nobody lives to tell the story, the odds are we will never know.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to disagree with the fact of them all dying off. I think they built these statues as a guardian of the island. Also to show other tribes that that is their land. I think that the way that they got the rock was, that an underwater volcano created the island like Hawaii, and there was left over rock for them to use for the statues. I think that they merged with another tribe when they left the island and headed home.
DeleteI'm going to have to agree with jerrettb5, there were a lot of diseases around that time that had no cure. The chances of them being wiped out by small pox,measles, or maybe just the flu is a good chance. Even famine could have occurred. The possibilities are endless and if they didn't die out then where did they disappear to? If they did go back to wherever they came from, how did they find their way back? They were blown off course and found that place, so how could they have found their way home?
DeleteI disagree with jarrettb5 because of a few reasons. First, I don't think they all died off. I believe that the Rapa Nui mixed with othe people that came to the island. Next, I think the big stone statues were used for celebrations not religious purposes. What they were used for I have no idea. The mystery on Easter Island might remain amystery forever.
DeleteThe Rapa Nui were the natives that inhabited the Easter Island. The purpose for why they built these statues that I think is as marking of their tribe that they marked their territory from other tribes. They also could have used these statues as guardians of the island. They were able to transport these rocks by maybe a underwater volcano formed the island and had left over rock which they used to carve these statues. I think the inhabitants left the island to get back to their home. Maybe to end up forming another tribe.
ReplyDeleteAs phillipd5's idea of what happened to Easter Island could be accurate, I have to disagree. I believe that the statues were created as a possible God, or just a tribe mark. The statue could potentially be the tribes "logo". It could represent or mean something that the human race doesn't know of. There are many possibilities to what these strange statues mean. The transferring of rock that was mentioned in Phillip's blog seemed unrealistic. In my opinion, the tribe of Rapa Nui maybe had moved from a different area where the rock was native to. As scientists are studying how they moved it, a possible thing that could've happened is they had different tools, other then the scientists thought, that could have effected how to move it more easily. Then again, Easter Island is a place filled with unknown things, and it has a lot of different theories to what had happened.
DeleteIn the articles over Easter Island, there are many interesting and mysterious things about it. The people who formed these statues were called Rapa Nui. No one knows for sure why this tribe created these statues. What is really weird about this situation is how these heavy, huge, rock statues were moved. From previous things I've read about Easter Island, the type of rock that was used to make these statues were not native to that area. In the second article I read, it said that scientists have been trying to move this type of rock with tools they would have had back then. They have not accomplished anything to how they shifted it. So the question is, how did they move these statues? The world may never know. Once people had found the area of Easter Island, all the population had been gone. No one knows where the tribe of Rapa Nui left to or what happened. All in all, Easter Island is full with questions that no one may ever know.
ReplyDeleteEaster Island is a very strange and mysterious place! There was a tribe, called the Rapa Nui, who formed these huge statues. I believe that the tribe was making all these statues so no one else could invade their space or territory. Another reason they could have made these rocks was because it was a sign to worship their leader. What makes Easter Island so intriguing is that no one knows how they got to rocks there to start carving. They also didn't have the tools to move the rocks there and they are way to heavy just to pick up. Since no one from that time still live that will have to remain a mystery to us.
ReplyDeleteEaster Island is a very strange place. There are these huge stone statues that are carved out of volcanic rock. I believe that the Rapa Nui tribe built them but how they built them is a mystery. It took a team of archaeologists a month to move one statue with the tools that the tribe would have had. Since there are so many, I believe that this project for the Rapa Nui took a very long time. People still go to this island to figure out this mystery although it most likely will never be solved. There have been zero stories passed down through generations, so we have nowhere to start. Easter Island is very intriguing because of the mystery. If the Rapa Nui had no contact with the rest of the world, they could have been more advanced than we thought. They might have found a quicker and more effective way to move the big stone blocks and carve them faster than the archaeologists. We may never know though.
ReplyDeleteThere are many weird things in this world but this place is crazy. I believe that a small group of people found their way to this island. Their civilization grew and grew and started to be more and more complex. These people had amazing craftmanship and built these huge statues out of volcanic rock form the island. They would make these huge statues because of celebrations, their leaders and other things like that.Then they would put them on big tree trunks on roll them down to where they were supposed to be. These inhabitants may have been good builders but they probably died out from disease or famine. In the end though it's pretty amazing that such a old civilization could build something like that.
ReplyDeleteEaster Island is very confusing place mostly because no one knows why they the people made them. I believe that the Rapa Nui tribe built them and craved them. But how they moved them I don't know. I also believe that since they were moved, that the more they built them, and time it must have took them, that they started to die off and no stories as to how they were built. Or how they were moved.
ReplyDeleteI agree with serenityG on saying that the Rapa Nui built those huge carved stones. I also believe that they made them to represent a leader or god. There are also many possibilities on what these statues could mean. Due to how big they are I agree they would be almost impossible to move. That is a mystery that we will never know! Since the tribe died off, there is no written record or spoken stories that can give us the complete picture off the Rapa Nui tribe.
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