Rapa Nui (Easter Island moai)

Nearly 900 monolithic ancestor figures carved by the Rapa Nui people.

1250 CE · -27.12, -109.29 · status: documented

The account

The moai, set on ceremonial ahu platforms, embodied deified ancestors; moving them shaped the island's history and ecology.

Connections in the atlas

• Last birdman contest at Orongo
• Thor Heyerdahl
• Rongorongo tablets found
• Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui expedition
• The moai that 'walked'

Sources

1. Wikipedia
2. Easter Island