They solve one of the mysteries of the Island of Passover
British scientists have clarified part of the mystery of the red crowns that fit moais of the quarry Pau Fist of the Island of Passover (Chile), thanks to the discovery of a way that was used to transport them. Professors Sue Hamilton, of the University College of London, and Colins Richards, of the University of Manchester, affirmed today that the crowns are done of volcanic rocks coming from an old volcano of the zone and that they were elaborated by the Polynesian settlers of the island between years 1,250 and 1.500.
What continues being an incognito, according to explained the University of Manchester in a press official notice, is how they managed to aupar these rocks of several tons of weight until the stop of moais. Hamilton and Richards directed the first British equipment that visits the island from 1914 and were the first archaeologists to whom it was allowed to realise an excavation in Pau Fist. “Now we know that the crowns arrived rolling by a highway that was constructed with red a compressed dreg dust cement, with a road lifted in one of the sides”, Richards explained, that indicated that “most probable it is than they were pushed by hand, although also is possible that wood trunks were used”.
Hamilton indicated that the Pau Fist is within the crater of an extinguished volcano and that “one third part of the crater was used for the production of the crowns” of moais. “Until now we have located more than 70 crowns in the ceremonial platforms and by the way. Many can more be had broken and to be incorporated to the platforms”, added. In addition, a obsidian axe was discovered with a leaf of about 17 centimeters, possibly property of one of the workers who worked in the transport of the crowns, that would have left next to the highway like a offer the Gods.
The finding of the axe and the way in which the broken crowns are aligned in one of the sides of the way suggest, according to the British investigators, who the wagon one was a ceremonial avenue that lead until the own quarry. “It has been clear that the quarry had a sacred context, but also an industrial context”, detailed professor Richards, who remembered that “the Polynesians saw the landscape as something alive and considered that after carving the rock the spirit entered to comprise of the statues, as in the case of moais.
Richards indicated that initially the inhabitants of the place populated more remote with the planet (the island is to 4,000 kilometers of the coast of Chile) constructed moais with different types from local stone and that was not until years 1,200 and 1,300 when they stopped realising the statues and crowns began to elaborate it. The investigation, that goes away to prolong five years more, also offers details on the life of 500 years ago in the island of Passover, whose habitats, affirmed Hamilton, “lived in a successful and or organized society, in vital or managed surroundings”.
“70% of the island were transformed open gardens and agricultural land, where an elaborated system was used to maintain the humidity of the surface”, it said. As far as Pau Fist, one concluded that it was a secret place, that could not be seen from other parts of the island and whose production could not be heard when taking place inside the crater. Everything seems to also indicate, indicated Richards, that different equipment existed that worked in the quarry and which they competed having his own areas of production within Pau Fist.
Source: www.elpais.com
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