Hare paenga: the canoe-shaped houses and …
Sep 22, 2021 · Numerous ahu were constructed around the Rapa Nui coastline, almost wrapping the island. Many of those with standing moai were positioned in small bays and inlets, which are ideal places for launching canoes. IMAGE: …
Entering the hare paenga - World Archaeology
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The Mystery of Easter Island | Smithsonian
Mar 31, 2007 · But what is clear is that they made a small, uninhabited island with rolling hills and a lush carpet of palm trees their new home, eventually naming their 63 square miles of …
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Voyaging and Isolation in Rapa Nui Prehistory - Hōkūleʻa
The key to reaching Rapa Nui would be to get enough days of favorable westerly winds to enable a canoe to sail sufficiently far to the east in order to come close enough to the island to see it, …
Rapa Nui / Arts and Crafts - Hōkūleʻa
These pitted curbstones, like the elaborate bird cult, are unique on Easter Island, evolved locally due to lack of timber. The canoes were poor and flimsy, but ten to twelve feet long and formed …
Ana Te Pora | "The Cave Of The Reed Canoe" - Rapa Nui Travel …
Explore Ana Te Pora, Rapa Nui's "Cave of the Reed Canoe," a refuge during tribal conflicts. Nestled on the northwest coast, it features a vaulted chamber and ceremonial stone platform. …
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A Quest for Rapa Nui / History and Heritage - Hōkūleʻa
Her navigational team will guide the canoe by a world of natural signs-stars, wind, waves and the flight of birds-and sail a course plotted only in their minds. Rapa Nui is one of the most remote inhabitable islands in the world, a tiny speck of …
Unraveling the Enigma of Easter Island: A Historian‘s Perspective
May 26, 2024 · These intrepid navigators, sailing in double-hulled canoes, brought with them their language, customs, and agricultural practices, including the cultivation of sweet potatoes, taro, …
Resonate - Uri Araki Opens Up Outrigger Canoeing in …
Feb 27, 2023 · Overlooking the scene from the shore, up on a knoll of dehydrated grass one of Rapa Nui’s moai statues stands sentinel. Pre-pandemic, thousands of tourists flew over five hours from Santiago, Chile every year to see these …
Ahu Nau Nau, showing the canoe-shaped ahu …
Using archaeological collections from the Sebastian Englert Anthropology Museum, the Rapa Nui Geochemical Project revealed a diversity of operational sequences in the manufacture of basalt...
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