Остров Пасхи english - доклад по прочим предметам

 

Тезисы:

  • It was the richest seabird breeding site in Polynesia and probably in the whole Pacific.
  • The reasons are today eminently clear.
  • During the mid 1700s rival clans began to topple each other's stone statues.
  • By 1864 the last of the statues was thrown down and desecrated.
  • Nearly all the moai are carved from the tough stone of the Rano Raraku volcano.
  • A small number of the moai were once capped with "crowns" or "hats" of red volcanic stone.
  • Scholars are unable to definitively explain the function and use of the moai statues.
  • The statues were thus symbols of authority and power, both religious and political.
  • But they were not only symbols.
  • To the people who erected and used them, they were actual repositories of sacred spirit.
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