Earlier this month, a fire caused “irreparable damage” to hundreds of Easter Island’s towering statues. The true toll is still being assessed, but the disaster is just one of the many threats to this sacred site
One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, calledEarlier this month, a fire caused “irreparable damage” to hundreds of moai, according to the local government of the island, known as Rapa Nui to locals. Officials determined that the fire started underground.
Rapa Nui was deforested by the time the first European arrived in 1722. Evidence shows the island's Indigenous people were able to adapt somewhat by building resilient farming systems.The oldest statues found on the island can be traced back to 1300, and the youngest dates to the late 1500s or early 1600s. The Rapa Nui people believed that their chiefs were descended from the gods, and that after death they would once again become divine.
“Containers in Hawaii, for example, are quite fierce. Their faces are twisted and turned with anger,” Van Tilburg says.“It’s only the Rapa Nui sculpture that says to us, it’s 100 percent human.”
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