How old are the Statues on Easter Island
So how old are the statues on Easter Island?Luxurious holiday Easter Island | Visiting Ahus & Moai statues
Anyone who has made these rock carvings and when will remain an unresolved secret, but it is believed that the island has been populated since the beginning of the first century AD and that the mai islands are several hundred years old. Santiago is five hours away by plane to give you an impression of how insulated Easter Island is, and the closest island is Pitcairn, 1,200 northwest.
It' s known that there were many people living on the island, during this period they were fighting with each other and damaging the world. It' s not known why these huge'Moai' statues were created and why most of them were damaged.
Uncommon Tukuturi statue on Easter Island is still an unsolved riddle
A peculiar "kneeling Moai" or just "Tukuturi" character, found on Easter Island in 1955 by the archeologist Thor Heyerdahl's family. The Tukuturi was found in the Rano Raraku stone pit, but oddly enough no other statue of this creature came along. According to some legends, this is a renowned mai statue built to guard the island's artisans for years.
It is very different from other statues on the island. In contrast to the other stonecolossi, Tukuturi's features are round, much more human-like in comparison to the other mai' s square, right-angled beheads. It also has well articulated feet and kneels with its arms on its knee.
Did Tukuturi create old-fashioned mai or was it its forerunner? However, the most frequent notion is that it was one of the first sculpture to be made - an early forerunner of the mai. Maybe we have to ask ourselves whether the mystical Tukuturi on his knees is a "moai" at all.
It is the knee of the sculpture that attracts our interest. Does the genuflecting posture show a way of showing adoration and reverence for his idols, or is he perhaps pleading for it? He' s known for his pioneer work on Easter Island. "Master who had erected the fine Inca wall of the first epoch were not also the creators of the powerful half-figures that made Easter Island so well known.
You made a number of simple statues[like Tukuturi] with a round face and gazing at them, sometimes reddish tufa and sometimes dark brown base, but also the yellow-grey vulcanic stone that was so common in the near future..."