ラパヌイの歴史– category –

ECHOLOGICAL DISASTER Research on the flora of Easter Island has shown that before the mid-17th century, 23 species of trees, shrubs and small bushes grew on the island. Three of these species measured 20m or more, and five others 10m. Af...

THE GODS TANGAROA AND HIS CHILDREN Rano Raraku was more of a shrine than just a source of raw materials: in Polynesian cosmogony, this volcano, its crater filled by a lake, is one of the many entrances of the po, the domain of the ancest...

DAILY LIFE Until the arrival of men, the islands of the Pacific were anything but paradise: no fruits or vegetables grew. The principal work of th islanders consisted, therefore, of looking after the food plants brought from distant land...

RAPA NUI SOCIETY A POWER OF DIVINE ORIGIN AND A STRUCTURED SOCIETY The polynesians' ability to complete perilous journeys and their successful settlement in Rapa Nui shows they had a structured society with a bold and powerful decision-m...

THE POLYNESIANS DISCOVER RAPA NUI The success of maritime advetures depends on the complexity of the society that undertakes them. Hunting peoples sometimes roam hundreds of kilometers in small boats but the conquest of the open sea is o...

AN ISLAND OF EXTREME SOLITUDE The immense Pacific Ocean is dotted with thousands of tiny volcanic islands that emerged from the depths millions of years ago. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) , the most isolated of them all, is located far from t...