Rapa Nui
Nan Modal
Female Deity
100
The Moai are made from these hard, dark volcanic stones quarried from large hills on the island.
What is basalt?
100
The islands of Nan Madol were linked together by these.
What is a canal?
100
All of the figurine's surfaces were smoothed with this light and porous volcanic rock, that was readily available on the beaches.
What is pumice?
200
Statues that were identified as chieftains supposedly had this specific characteristic.
What is a topknot?
200
The deeply religious Nan Madol community focused their worship on the sea and believed that these mythical creatures built their islands.
What is a sea dragon?
200
The figurines purpose in fertility ceremonies explains the emphasis on this.
What are body parts?
300
The Moai are Oceanic monumental sculptures that display the status/power and commemorate these important figures that have been deified after death.
Who are the Easter Island ancestors?
300
The Nan Madol buildings were built by this method.
What is the lincoln log method?
300
The female deity originated from a small isolated atoll in the archipelago of the Caroline Islands, known as this.
What is Nukuoro?
400
The Moai were positioned with their faces inland and their backs to the sea.
What is the protective position of the Easter Island Moai?
400
The Nan Madol was constructed by placing rocks on submerged coral reefs to build platforms that could support large, naturally rod-like and straight pieces of basalt also known as this.
What are prismatic columns?
400
The fertility ceremonies where the Female Deity figurines where used marked the beginning of the harvest of these three foods.
What are bananas, sugarcane, and coconuts?
500
Between 1722 and 1774 this explorer discovered that Easter Island was littered with human bones and sparsely populated.
Who is James Cook?
500
The Nan Madol functioned as the political seat of this dynasty.
What is the Saudeleur Dynasty?
500
The female deity is an oceanic female fertility sculpture with 5 underlying themes starting with the letters - R - C - D - S - F.
What is religion, ceremony, deity, sexuality, and fertility?