by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Jan 10, 2020 | Archeology, Archeology
Rano Raraku New excavations in Easter Island’s statue quarry: Soil fertility, site formation and chronology by Jo Anne van Tilburg A recent study has demonstrated that the work done in the quarry at Rano Raraku, where some thousand moai (statues) were carved from the...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 31, 2019 | Archeology, Rapa Nui Culture
Ana Hue Neru The Caves To Whiten People As far back as the late 19th Century, various expeditions have attempted to unravel the mysteries of the Rapanui culture through archaeological research and the oral traditions of the Islanders. However, whatever knowledge that...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 30, 2019 | Archeology, Rapa Nui Culture
Ngaru’a or Neck Pillow Antiguamente los isleños no buscaban mayores comodidades en sus Hare Paenga (casas bote), en los Hare Mauku (habitaciones de piedra techada con pasto) o en la caverna que eligieron para vivir; para ellos estos espacios eran solamente lugares...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Nov 19, 2019 | Archeology, Uncategorized
Talismans of Rapa Nui Ho’onu o Tortuga or Turtle: In the old days, turtles were very common on Easter Island. La Perousse Bay was originally called Hanga Ho’onu or “Bay of Turtles”. According to the older people, the sandy shore of La Perousse was where the turtles of...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Nov 18, 2019 | Archeology
The Eye of the Moai By Cristian Moreno Pakarati – Historiador / Historian Nearly three hundred megalithic statues were at one time erected on ceremonial platforms on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the vast majority along the almost 60 km (37 miles) of coastline...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Archeology
The Cult of the Ancestors and the Moais Scientists, especially ethnologists, have long studied how different and complex communities were formed and what cultural aspects kept them alive. In New Guinea, the second largest island on the planet, more than one thousand...
