Easter Island Red Hats

Easter Island Red Hats- mystery has been solved by British archaeologists. Easter Island is extensively famous for its epic human figures statues, called moai, with their gigantic red hats formed by the Rapanui people , the long ago mystery about Easter Island Red Hats that how these giant hats were being put on the head of these statues was revealed on Monday .

University of Manchester’s Dr Colin Richards and Dr Sue Hamilton from University College London consider these hats were constructed in a concealed quarry and then rolled down from the slopes of a primeval volcano and there is another possibility that these hats rolled by hand or on tree logs to the head of these statues. Research shows that primarily the Polynesians built the moai from the Puna Pau scoria that is the types of local rocks or stone, found between 12,000 to 13,000 AD, and after the formation of these large statues, dignified hats were made for them.

These archaeologists are first ever to reveal the Puna Pau quarry on the Easter Island that is situated around 2,500 miles away from the coast of Chile and are world’s most isolated place, populated by people, and are most famous for these statues and their hats. The weigh of these hats is several tons and were engraved from a cavern full of red scoria, an ancient stone , the red color of these hats express their elevated origin and high rank.

The inhabitants of the Iceland constructed these moai in the in remembrance of their ancestors with the believe that spirits will enter in these statues for ever and hats had been added to these structures to increase their heights but how these hats were raised up to the head and how these were attached to the moai is still a secret.

Easter Island Red Hats

Easter Island Red Hats