Ancient Roadways
Rapa Nui’s ancient roads have stirred some debate. Thor Heyerdahl believes these roadways served as the main way of transportation. Archaeologists uncovered the ancient roads in addition to the toppled statues by the sides of them. However, Katherine Routledge, a British archaeologist, adamantly, opposes this theory and instead says the roads were for ritualistic purposes. Despite this contradictory view, the evidence supports Routledge’s proposed theory. The roads converge on the Rano Raraku volcano, which may mean the volcano was a place of worship for the people.
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One other mysterious aspect of Easter Island has been its writing system. Actually, Robert M. Schoch argues that the found calligraphy tablets probably dated even 10,000 years older than what was originally thought. Thus, making the island even older than suspected. While Schoch was deep in ancient Turkish ruins at Gobekli Tepe, he had this epiphany. The idea came from the feeling that the ruins were out of place based on their location. He found many points of comparison between those Gobekli Tepe pillars and the Easter Island Moai.
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