Archeology

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The new excavations carried out in Rano Raraku, the moais quarry, leave us an enormous archaeological wealth and vestiges on the Rapa Nui culture.

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/d2a9b964-9cb7-47ec-90cf-698dc4eb0698.jpg” background_position=”bottom_center” custom_padding=”70px||655px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”60px” global_colors_info=”{}”] Among the sites most visited for their supposed magnetism are the large oval rock called Te Pito Kura and a section of the road to Anakena, about half a kilometer from the

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3612d6aa-ff99-4754-9972-6f3114201d2e.jpg” background_position=”bottom_center” custom_padding=”||1443px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”60px”] Talismans of Rapa Nui [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_color=”#efefef” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” header_2_font_size=”30px”] Ho’onu o Tortuga or Turtle: In the old days, turtles were very common on Easter Island. La Perousse Bay was originally

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/foto-1-6.jpg” background_position=”top_center”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#8e1111″ header_font_size=”60px” custom_padding=”97px|||||”] The Eye of the Moai [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ text_font_size=”16px”] By Cristian Moreno Pakarati – Historiador / Historian [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_image src=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Moai_Eye.jpg” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.0.2″ border_radii=”on|50px|50px|50px|50px” border_width_all=”4px” border_color_all=”#ffffff”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ custom_padding=”28px||0px|||”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px”]Nearly three

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/foto-1-6.jpg” background_position=”bottom_center” custom_padding=”||1410px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ad1111″ header_font_size=”50px”] The Cult of the Ancestors and the Moais [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px”]Scientists, especially ethnologists, have long studied how different and complex communities were formed and what cultural aspects kept them alive.

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/184a801b-cf11-4c24-ad1a-bbdfce0974e4.jpg” background_position=”center_right” custom_padding=”154px||1243px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”60px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset2″] Ara o te, the moai road [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.2″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px”]Halfway up the side of the Rano Raraku volcano and buried up to their chests, more than a hundred giant statues

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/08b31211-d57c-4c27-8e49-265fcc96274a.jpg” custom_padding=”185px||59px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”55px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset2″] Rock Paintings from Orongo [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.6″ custom_margin=”295px|auto||auto||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ text_text_align=”center” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”16px” text_text_shadow_style=”preset2″]During their visit to the stone houses in Orongo where the men of the Bird-Man cult used to perform their rituals, Commander Geisler and his

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ background_image=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2e098992-e243-4011-8d49-c4d83ad12dee.jpg”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffdc00″ header_font_size=”55px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset2″] AVA RANGA UKA A TOROKE HAU [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffdc00″ header_font_size=”55px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset2″ header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_text_shadow_style=”preset2″] German Archaeological Excavation (2nd Stage) [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ text_text_align=”left” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px|false|false”]New studies are being done by the German and

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ background_color=”#000000″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”55px”] The Failure of the Moai [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://moevarua.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/el-fracaso-de-los-moai.jpg” _builder_version=”3.26.6″][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ custom_padding=”46px||0px|||”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.6″ text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px”]Testimonials and legends confirm that there were difficult times. Juan Tepano, a major source for Routledge, Macmillan Brown and