The land takes up just over 63 square miles in the south pacific ocean, some 2,300 miles west. The mysteries of easter island the mysteries of easter island. The mystery of easter island by katherine routledge. The mystery of easter island questions and answers. Island of mystery far in the south pacific lies a lonely place called easter island. The delivery of the document was immediately followed by action. Easter island mystery game easter island detective. It details routledges journey by yacht from england to south america, around patagonia to chile and on to easter island, giving an account of its life, history and folklore.
Easter island is an amazing place with a lot of unaswered questions. It is in the southern pacific ocean, 2,300 miles west of the coast of chile and 2500 miles southeast of tahiti. Read ebook now the mystery of easter island pdf free. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Moai simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. My selfguided tour plan leads me to another question. With this information you continue your search on easter island. Get up and collect the purple bag from somewhere in the room.
New research is shedding light on the easter island mystery concerning what caused the downfall of the natives of the island, called rapa nui. The official position is that all easter islands platforms are simply variations of the marae platforms of central and eastern polynesia, which were socioreligious centres and shrines to ancestral gods. The vast expanse of the south pacific rolled below her. To find the ancient stone tablet that contains information about the founders and how to awaken the guardians. The environmental transformation of rapa nui, while a tragedy in terms of. Ell leveled reader pack for the mysteries of easter island. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading historys greatest mysteries. Read read the statues that walked unraveling the mystery of easter island by terry hunt book online or download pdf pdf. We now know the answer to the riddle and it is a chilling one. Each moai is made out of one large stone but some have an extra stone on top of the head. A documentary series separating truth from fiction, solving intricate mysteries places, objects, events andor people that have captivated people around the globe. Jared diamond, a professor of geography and physiology at ucla, has explored the.
Easter island mystery revealed using mathematical model. Easter island remains one of the most mysterious places in the world. It contains 21 questions specifically about the movie followed by 4 questions from our introduction to environmental science topics. What is known about who the first easter islanders were and when they arrived. Most were made from the volcanic rock in the rano raraku area of the island. Easter is a volcanic land, and in the earliest days of the worlds history great lights and flowing lava must have gleamed across the expanse of water, then gradually lessened and died away, leaving their work to be moulded by wind and tide. First published in 1919, this work provides information on that most mysterious of islands easter island rapa nui. In 1864 the french missionary eyraud discovered in a subterranean shelter on. Easter island introduced the spectacular marvels of easter island to a wider audience. This two page editable case study comes with an answer key. The island is famous for its huge statues and the mystery that surrounds them, a mystery that originated largely with the. The great mystery of easter island that struck all early visitors was not just that these colossal statues stood in such a tiny and remote corner of the world but that the stones seemed to have been set down from the sky. Download the mystery of easter island pdf free video dailymotion. The first page contains an article about easter island and the development of the ecological disaster that occurred there, and the second page contains questions that explore the causes and effects of.
Modem archaeological scientists and engineers try and recreate and decipher the mystery of easter islands moai statues by experimenting with. Pdf the human transformation of rapa nui easter island. The mystery of easter island content page kellscraft. Little jimmy flores has gone missing and his mother believes hes still on easter island where he went on a school trip, the mysterious place in the pacific ocean where there stand 887 statues believed to have been erected by the rapa nui people who settled on. With each year, more theories arise concerning the island, the statues, and the rapa nui people who once lived. Mysteries of easter island movie guide what is the native name of easter island and how did the island get the name easter. How long had the native people been isolated from the rest of the world. In 1919 katherine routledges romantic narrative, the mystery of. Easter island is famous for its humongous stone statues, called moai. Angata, the prophetess, the mystery of easter island. However, in spite of their abundance, there are around 600 moai distributed throughout the whole island and 397 are in the rano raraku quarry, there are still plenty of unanswered questions regarding.
In 1995, unesco named easter island a world heritage site. In the book, routledge and her companions explore the secret caves, ancient roads, pyramid platforms. Easter island kindle edition by charles river editors. The moai or easter island heads or easter island statues, represent the most important pieces of rapa nui art and they have become its trademark. The island is home to about six thousand people and hundreds of giant stone statues called moai. The 887 giant moai statues on easter island have turned one of the most isolated islands in the world into one of the most well knownand most mysterious. The stone on easter island is the best carving stone in the pacific society was isolated, so the energy expended in other pacific societies trading, raiding, exploration, and colonization was directed inward chiefs got stature not by interisland interaction but by competing for status by a game of statue oneupmanship later ones had a pukao.
Easter island asks the question, who were the easter islanders, and why did they build the statues that dot their remote corner of the world. The research presented here documents the elevated soil nutrient levels of gardens and. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. The mysteries of easter island springfield public schools. Pdf history of easter island on the rocks researchgate. It was easter day when dutch explorers found the island and therefore named their new discovery, easter island. For decades, scientists have studied this remote island in the south pacific and its hundreds of giant stone statues known as moai. The mystery of easter after the reading of the gospel, sit down with the children. Moai are sometimes called heads but they do have shoulders, arms, and a body but these are usually too small for the head, also some of the best known ones had been partly buried over the. This is what dutch sea captain jacob roggeveen found when he arrived there in 1722 on easter sunday. This document is for your personal classroom use only. Use the three images presenting information about easter island as well as the mystery of easter island youll either find it online see the lesson for the url or your teacher will provide copies, to help complete the table below. The mystery of easter island an ecology case study. Renewable vs nonrenewable resources, tragedy of the commons, sustainability, difference between environmental science and ecology and.
Easter island is no longer an isolated mystery, there is no need to indulge in surmises as to. Vinapus megalithic stone wall is said to bear only a superficial resemblance to the classic incan. Easter island, one of the great unsolved mysteries of the world one of the greatest mysteries on earth are the statutes which stand on easter island. If everybody is ready, i will get the things we need for today. Easter island is home to almost nine hundred mysterious stone statues. Some platform statues bore a large cylindrical headdress or pukao carved from reddish stone, and eyes of cut coral were fitted into their faces.
Mysteries of easter island questions mysteries of easter. Strong cultural coverage gets under the skin of this skinny country including a special feature on wine. The research, conducted by an international team including uc santa barbara, suggests that the demise of the. Pdf rapa nui easter island has become widely known as a case study of humaninduced. The mystery of easter island imagine arriving on a small island in the pacific ocean about halfway between the island of tahiti and the west coast of south america to find giant rock statues of humanlike figures greeting you along the coastline.
Her destination was three thousand miles off the coast of chile. A group of easter islanders outside the church door. Easter island, one of the great unsolved mysteries of the. The mystery of easter island travel smithsonian magazine. Lonely planet chile and easter island country travel guide. Im particularly interested in books that will give me the sort of info id get if i went on a guided tour. This title features expanded coverage of patagonia, including new adventure options in puerto natales and more information on chiles crown jewel, torres del paine national park.
By the time dutch explorersthe first europeans to reach the remote islandarrived on easter day in 1722, the land was nearly barren. The mysteries of easter of island is a detailed text that will keep students engaged and leave them with many of their own questions to consider. Many early visitors and researchers noted and commented upon petroglyphs. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. Informational nonfiction, 585 words, level m grade 2, lexile 690l. Easter island was fortyfive square miles of volcanic peaks surround by endless ocean and yet for a brief time an amazing. The tablet is in pieces at a couple of locations on the island. Katherine maria routledge nee pease 11 august 1866 december 1935, was an english. A group of easter islanders outside the church door, the mystery of easter island, published 1919. Some researchers have argued that the rapa nui, as the islanders were known, died out after using up the natural resources on their tiny, 163squarekilometr. Read the statues that walked unraveling the mystery of. Hanga roa terevaka puakatike rano kau easter island. We set to work to excavate some of the statues which st. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page.
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