Big Stone face Statues

I have a stone face with a square face in full colour. It's completely red on white.

Its colouring does not look like the stone one. Though it is mentioned as a sculpture of the gardens, I have it on my dining room desk. To exit this roundabout, please use your speed-dial button to move to the next or preceding headline.

Moyai- Easter Island, Chile

The Easter Isle ( "Rapa Nui": Isla de Pascua in Spanish) is a chilenean isle in the southeast Pacific Ocean, at the southeast point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The Easter Isle is known for its 887 preserved monuments, known as the mai, which were made by the early rappa nui. Easter Isle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 and a large part of the islands is preserved in the Raffa Nui National Park.

Polynesians probably established themselves on Easter Isle sometime between 700 and 1100 A.D. and established a flourishing and diligent civilisation, as the many huge stone mai and other artifacts of the islands prove. Mankind' s activities, the arrival of the Polyynesian rats and overcrowding, however, gradually deforested and eradicated our planet' s biodiversity, which greatly undermined Rapa Nui civilisation.

In the 1860' s, illnesses in Europe and attacks by Peruvians on slaves further brought the Rapa Nui to a low of only 111 in 1877. The Easter Isle is one of the most secluded and populated islets in the canyon. Pitcairn is the closest populated country (approx. 50 people in 2013 ), 2,075 km away; the closest city with over 500 people is Rikitea on the Mangareva Isle, 2,606 km away; the closest mainland point is in the centre of Chile, 3,512 km away.

The Easter Isle is a peculiar area of Chile that was annihilated in 1888. The 2012 population of the Philippines is about 5,800, of which about 60% are descendents of Rapa Nui, an Aborigine. The Easter Isle is part of the Isle of Chile. Estimates of the first settlements on Easter Isle date from 300 to 1200 AD, roughly coincident with the advent of the first colonists in Hawaii.

Corrections in radio-carbon datation have altered almost all of the early settlements in Polynesia assumed so far. Today it is regarded as located in the narrow area from 700 to 1100 AD. Current archeological research points to an even later date: "Radiocarbon data for the first stratigraphical strata in Anakena, Easter island, and analyses of earlier carbon radiological data indicate that the isle was colonised around 1200 A.D. later.

As a result, significant environmental effects and large amounts of investment in culture in monumental architectural and sculpture began soon after the first population. "According to verbal records, the first village was in Anakena. Scientists have found that the anchorage of Caleta Anakena offers the best protection of the archipelago from the waves and a sand shore for canoeing, making it attractive as an probably early place of population.

It was most likely inhabited by Polynesians sailing in rafts or a catamaran from the Gambier Islands (Mangareva, 2,600 km away) or the Marquesas Islands, 3,200 km away. As James Cook was visiting the Isle, one of his Polynesian crews from Bora Bora, Hitihiti, was able to talk to the Rapa Nui.

One of the languages most similar to Rafa Nui is Mangarevan, with an approximate resemblance of 80 per cent in lexicon. 1999 a journey with rebuilt polynese vessels could arrive on Easter from Mangareva in 19 acres. In the 1860', according to the verbal tradition of the evangelistic ministers, the original classification system of the islands was a powerful one with an Aryan, a high chieftain, who exercised great control over nine other tribes and their chieftains.

One of the most obvious elements in the civilization was the creation of solid statues named mai, some of which believe to be divinized forefathers. National Geographic suggests most scientists believe that the mai were made in honour of forefathers, chieftains, or other important personalities.

The majority of the villages were on the shore and most of the mai were built along the shore, guarding their offspring in the villages in front of them, with their backs to the ghost worlds in the ocean. Diamond proposed that the Easter Island was a place of cannibalism after the building of the mai helped to destroy the environment when severe deforestation destabilised an already fragile eco-system.

Archaeological records show that the archaeological site was home to many tree varieties at the first occupation, at least three of which were up to 15 meters (49 ft) or more: Pashalococos - probably the biggest palms of the day, Alphitonia Zizyphoides and Elaeocarpus Rotongensis, as well as at least six kinds of indigenous landfowl.

An important contributory force to the disappearance of several plants was the advent of the Polyynesian cats. For Rapa Nui, the reclaimed seed of the peel showed marks that they were eaten by mice. As Barbara A. West wrote: "Sometime before the Europeans arrived on Easter Isle, the Rapanui were experiencing a huge transformation in their welfare system caused by a shift in the ecological situation on their Isle?

" During this period, 21 tree and all kinds of terrestrial bird have become extinct due to a mixture of overfishing, rats stealing and climatic changes. Most of the woodland on the isle had been cut down and there were no more than 3 meters high wood. Theories about logging, which cause such environmental and societal damages, included that the tree was used as rolls to transport the statues from the Rano Raraku stone pit to their location.

The deforestation also affected Rapa Nui's farm output. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the inhabitants of the islands were largely fed by agriculture, with the most important sources of proteins being poultry. With the overpopulation and dwindling natural resource, fighters known as Mattatoa became more powerful and the ancestral cult ended, making way for the cult of birds.

As Beverly Haun wrote: "The notion of the Manas (of power) that has been reinvested in inherited leader has been transformed into the bird man, obviously beginning around 1540, and coincided with the last remnants of the Moais. "This worship claimed that although the forefathers still provided for their offspring, the means by which the alive could come into touch with the deceased were no longer statues, but people selected through a comp.

Peterglyphs, which represent birdmen on Easter Island, are exactly the same as some on Hawaii, suggesting that this approach was probably introduced by the early colonists; only the contest itself was unparalleled on Easter Island. Until 1838 the only remaining mai were on the hillsides of Rano Raraku, in Hoa Hakanananai'a in Orongo, and Ariki Paro in Ahu Te Pito Kura.

On the 5th of April (Easter Sunday) 1722, the first record of Europe's contacts with the Isle was made when the Netherlands sailor Jacob Roggeveen spent a whole weekend visiting it, estimating a total of 2,000 to 3,000 people. Spaniards said that the coast of the undeveloped and undeveloped islet, with stone figures around it. In 1774, four years later, the English discoverer James Cook came to Easter Isle. He told us that some statues had been overthrown.

By interpreting Hitihiti, Cook learnt that the statues commemorate her former high chieftains, as well as their name and rank. In 1825 the English vessel HMS Blossom came and told us that it saw no statues at all. The Easter Island was flown to several occasions in the nineteenth centurys, but until then the island inhabitants were open to any attempts to try to land, and before the 1860s very little new information was known.

Easter Island's great stone statues, or mai, were engraved in the time between 1100-1680 A.D. (rectified radio-carbon data). 887 stone sculptures were catalogued on the islands and in the museum's collection. Though often referred to as "Easter Isleheads", the statues have torso, most of which end at the top of the thigh, although a small number are full statues kneeling on bowed legs with their arms above their stomach.

A few erect mai have burrowed up to their neck by moving the ground. Nearly all (95%) of the mai were cut from compacted, slightly consolidated vulcanic fly or tufa found in a unique location on the side of the extinguished Rano Raraku vulcano. Indigenous people who used to carve them used only stone carvings, mainly Tokyo tbasalt, which are all over the quarries.

Stone-cutters were ground by splintering a new blade. During the sculpture the vulcanic rock was sprayed with splash and softened. Whilst many crews worked simultaneously on different statues, a solo mai took a five or six-man crew about a year to do it.

Every sculpture depicted the late header of a line. The statues were erected only a fourth of the time. Paro " is the biggest mai standing on a plateau. A number of other statues of similar importance were carried to the northern and southern coast of the city. The statues could be lifted by means of a micro-eroa, a Y-shaped carriage with cruciform sections, which was drawn with cables from the tenacious rind of the house trunk and bound around the sculpture's throat.

Everywhere 180 to 250 men were needed to pull, according to the mai. About 50 of the statues were rebuilt in recent years. A different way that could have been used would be to fix cables to the sculpture and swing it by drawing it forward while rocking it.

Bowls of the mai in the stone pit are tilted forward, while the bowls that are moving to the definitive sites are not. Statues found along the transportation routes have a broader base than statues placed on them. This would allow a more solid transportation. Research has shown a fracture on the pedestals of the statues during transportation, which could have been caused by the swinging of the sculpture to and fro and by great pressure at the rim.

Statues installed on a hu do not have broad plinths and stone carvings found in the places indicate that they were further altered during placementa. Uninhabited and falling statues near the old streets are (more often than you would expect from chance) to be found face down on rising slopes and on your back as you walk up.

Several of them were recorded erect along the old streets, e.g. through a celebration of Captain Cook's journey, which lay in the shadow of a sculpture. Around the mai, the effects of the preservation of monuments on the enviroment are discussed. There are some who believe that the development of the mai has led to extensive forest degradation and eventually to a conflict over limited natural resource.

A large sculpture of Moya was dug out of the soil in 2011. In the same archaeological programme some large mai were found with complicated posterior petroglyphalae, which were unveiled by excavations of the hull.