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Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile annexed in 1888, Easter Island is widely famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai (pronounced /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/), created by the early Rapanui people. It is a World Heritage Site (as determined by UNESCO) with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. In recent times the island has served as a cautionary tale about the cultural and environmental dangers of overexploitation. Ethnographers and archaeologists now argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and the slave raiding that devastated the population in the 1860s had a much greater social than environmental impact. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  blingblingauctions.freeservers.com 480px x 720px | 33.40kB [source page] More sample screenshots From Yahoo Image Search: "Easter Island"  123bee.com unknown ue, 23 Mar 2010 18:00:54 GM Report/Praise this game; Share Bookmark this game. How To Play; Game Controls. Nextgame Next Game Walkthrough Full Screen Replay. Playing the game of defense . Easter Island. TD. Use mouse to interact. ...  brexmother3.blogspot.com " " Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:16:00 GM Later this evening, depart by chartered Air Tahiti Nui A340-300 Aircraft for overnight flight to . Easter Island. . Our flight is 5.5 hours long. Addition of 4 hours due to time zone difference causes us to arrive the following morning. D. ...  aajtv.com unknown Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:55:00 GM Easter Island. braces for eclipse, tourist influx. a, Remote and mysterious . Easter Island. is bracing for an influx of tourists and problems with.. Human genome: the hunt continues for 'malicious proteins'. a, Scientific advances of the ... From Google Blog Search: "Easter Island"  news.smh.com.au Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:45:47 GMT+00:00 Sydney Morning Herald The museum said the liquid was molassess and the 3000-year-old Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island statue of a human head and torso suffered no damage. ...  newsahead.com Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:43:29 GMT+00:00 NewsAhead Agency These include 63-square-mile Easter Island , 2375 miles off the coast of Chile, which is home to iconic and mysterious monumental stones in human forms that ...  technology.gather.com Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:44:05 GMT+00:00 Gather.com While the real ones are too heavy to ship economically, and they are somewhat rare, and I'm fairly certain taking them is a crime, DIY Easter Island ... From Google News Search: "Easter Island" What do you think of the Easter Island Head kid? Q. There's this kid that goes to school with my son, Marty. He has a head like those statues on Easter Island. Your thoughts? Asked by Jay Sherman - Tue May 26 20:30:13 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. I know him too...he's got the worst lower back problems for a kid his age I've ever seen. Poor bastard. Answered by Oh, just EVOLVE! - Wed May 27 03:06:37 2009 Is Easter Island an example of the ultimate outcome of society? Q. Who were the Easter Islanders? In 1722 when, on Easter Sunday, Dutch commander Jacob Roggeveen, became the first European to "discover" the island. What his crew witnessed and recorded once on the island has fueled speculation about the origins of the Rapa Nui ever since. They reported a mixed race island with both dark skinned and light living together. Some were even described as having red hair and being sun-burnt looking! This does not fit well in the Polynesian only scenario and despite recent evidence that backs up a migration from another island in the South Pacific, archaeologists still must argue the claims of the most well-known, but now, outcast archaeologist/explorer Thor Heyerdahl. Asked by Greed - Sat Sep 16 15:43:09 2006 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. You might like this book. It's called Collapse and it mentions Easter Island as a victim of failed civilizations not comprehending the signs of their doom. Answered by n0witrytobeamused - Sat Sep 16 19:55:58 2006 Where did Stonehenge and Easter Island come from?
Q. Where did Stone Henge And Easter Island Come from? Asked by MightyE - Sun Dec 3 21:52:01 2006 - - 5 Answers - 1 Comments A. Archaeologists think that the standing stones of Stonehenge were erected between 2500 BC and 2000 BC although the surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Joseph Seligmans's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words "st n" meaning "stone", and either "hencg" meaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or "hen(c)en" meaning "gallows" or "instrument of torture". The Stonehenge complex was built in several construction phases spanning 2,000 years, although there is evidence for activity both before and afterwards on the site. Dating and understanding the various phases of… [cont.] Answered by Albertan - Sun Dec 3 22:01:37 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Easter Island" |
