Who live in a remote place? Matias morocho y Esteben chazi.

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1 Who live in a remote place? Matias morocho y Esteben chazi

2 Easter island Easter Island is a remote island administered by Chile. It is best known for its unique ancient cultures and famous stone carvings. 900 massive stone carvings were engraved by the native Polynesian inhabitants hundreds of years ago. Rapa Nui is a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose existence is still a mystery to historians and scientists.Easter Island is accessible through is in airplane from Santiago, Chile. Around 6,600 people live on Easter Island.

3 The island

4 location

5 Rapa nui culture If there is a place in the world surrounded by mystery, that is Easter Island. The fact of being so isolated, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, made the development and history of the Rapa Nui people very particular and different from that of their native peoples and, in addition, caused very little to be known about their culture.

6 The language spoken on Easter Island, Rapa Nui, despite having Polynesian roots, underwent transformations that made it unique. On the other hand, the myths and traditions that explain the origin and settlement of the island have survived almost miraculously due mainly to the subjugation, slavery and abuse suffered by the Rapa Nui people during the 19th and 20th centuries. It was precisely this abuse that almost extinguished the Rapa Nui people and caused their writing to be permanently lost in the memory of the ancients, so that nowadays nobody is able to decipher the rongorongo tablets language

7 hierarchy The Rapanui had a governor or king known as ‘ariki’, who believed himself a direct descendant of the gods. The population was divided into tribes, which occupied different areas with a coastal strip. The great majority of the town lived in the interior, next to the cultivation areas, where they celebrated religious ceremonies to adore the ancestors represented through the moái, stone figures distributed throughout the island

8 How they survived A study argues that the groundwater that flowed on the coast of Easter Island was used as drinking water by the ancient inhabitants of the island, and that the monuments of the Rapanui society are located precisely in the places where that fresh water was available

9 Rapa Nui, Easter Island, withdrawn in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, more than 3,500 kilometers off the coast of Chile, a country to which the island belongs, has an archaeological truth: hundreds of moai, incredible statues carved in volcanic rock by the former inhabitants of the island representing the deceased leaders or ancestors. Archaeological evidence, but many mysteries: how were these statues built and how were they moved and distributed throughout the island? An incognito that leads to new unknowns: how many people lived on the island at its peak and where did they get drinking water? Rapanui society could not have flourished without a basic sustenance like water. "We know, from the stories of the first European explorers who discovered the island in the 18th century, that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui used brackish water that contains drinking salt. Beyond this, almost nothing is known about the water resources in the prehistory claim the authors of a recent study on the subject

10 Map of the island

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