#easterisland — Public Fediverse posts

Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine gets a trailer. Watch it here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/03/19/martin-mcdonaghs-wild-horse-nine-gets-a-trailer/

#WildHorseNine #film #MartinMcDonagh #SamRockwell #JohnMalkovich #SteveBuscemi #ParkeyPosey #EasterIsland #MarianaDiGirólamo #TomWaits #AilínSalas

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• The Slave Trade: In the 1860s, brutal slave raids captured over a thousand inhabitants. Those repatriated brought smallpox, turning the island into a "vast charnel-house."

• Capitalist Extraction: European traders later burned huts and destroyed crops to force the starving survivors off the land.

#history
#EasterIsland
#RapaNui
#ecocide

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The historical reality is not "ecocide," but colonial homicide. Early visitors, like the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on his flagship, recorded a lush, cultivated island with a healthy population. The Rapa Nui did not commit suicide; they were liquidated by globalized profit-seeking:

• The Invasive Vanguard: Ecology was first destabilized by invasive rats that arrived with European ships.

#history
#EasterIsland
#RapaNui
#ecocide

The "ecocide" of Easter Island is a myth (and the real story is darker)

The mainstream narrative of the Rapa Nui—popularized by figures like Jared Diamond—is a "fable of global ecocide" used to blame human nature for systemic failure. In this myth, a "selfish" population overexploited their trees to move stone statues, eventually descending into cannibalism and war. This is a lie designed to glorify the hunter by blaming the lion.

#history
#EasterIsland
#RapaNui
#ecocide

#1199 Thor Heyerdahl - Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st Penguin edition, 6th reprint.

#ThorHeyerdahl #PenguinBooks #EasterIsland #RapaNui #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

https://unescowhstamps.blogspot.com
Rapa Nui, Chile – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #ParqueNacionalRapaNui #RapaNuiNationalPark #RapaNui #IslaDePascua #EasterIsland

Easter Island—Rapa Nui—stands as one of the world’s most enduring archaeological mysteries, and the image captures the island’s atmosphere of wonder, isolation, and unanswered questions. #easterisland #rapanui https://connectparanormal.link/post/803081347011936256/easter-island-mysteries

New 3D reconstruction reveals how Rapa Nui’s iconic moai were carved at the Rano Raraku quarry

For the first time, researchers have presented the most detailed digital reconstruction of Rano Raraku, the main quarry on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, where almost all of the island’s famous moai statues were carved. The high-resolution 3D model, created from tens of thousands of drone photographs...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/new-3d-reconstruction-rapa-nui-s-iconic-moai/

@archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #rapanui #easterisland

🗿⚖️ Researchers at #Binghamton University used #physics modeling and field experiments to confirm that #EasterIsland's massive #moai statues were transported upright using rope teams that "walked" them in a coordinated rocking motion along specially designed roads. The team successfully moved a 4.35-ton replica statue 100 meters in 40 minutes with just 18 people, validating the efficiency of this ancient #engineering technique.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2025-10-easter-island-statues-physics.html

👉 Moai on TKSST: Walking with Giants: How did huge stone moai move across #RapaNui?
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/walking-with-giants-moving-rapa-nui-moai-videos

#archaeology #science #ancient #transportation #research

🗿⚖️ Researchers at #Binghamton University used #physics modeling and field experiments to confirm that #EasterIsland's massive #moai statues were transported upright using rope teams that "walked" them in a coordinated rocking motion along specially designed roads. The team successfully moved a 4.35-ton replica statue 100 meters in 40 minutes with just 18 people, validating the efficiency of this ancient #engineering technique.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2025-10-easter-island-statues-physics.html

👉 Moai on TKSST: Walking with Giants: How did huge stone moai move across #RapaNui?
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/walking-with-giants-moving-rapa-nui-moai-videos

#archaeology #science #ancient #transportation #research

Underwater mountain range off Easter Island hosts creatures unknown to science, expedition reveals
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/underwater-mountain-range-off-easter-island-hosts-creatures-unknown-to-science-expedition-reveals/ar-BB1lt1cw?ei=9

#EasterIsland
#UnknownToScience
#Leptoseris
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster
#BathyphysaConifera
#Dragonfish
#Stomiidae
#Seamount
#Chile

Underwater mountain range off Easter Island hosts creatures unknown to science, expedition reveals
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/underwater-mountain-range-off-easter-island-hosts-creatures-unknown-to-science-expedition-reveals/ar-BB1lt1cw?ei=9

#EasterIsland
#UnknownToScience
#Leptoseris
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster
#BathyphysaConifera
#Dragonfish
#Stomiidae
#Seamount
#Chile