A red scoria pukao on the head of a moai at Ahu Tahai, made using rock from Puna Pau
Maunga Puna Pau is a small crater or cinder cone and prehistoric quarry on the outskirts of Hanga Roa in the south west of Easter Island (a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean). Puna Pau gives its name to one of the seven regions of the Rapa Nui National Park.
Puna Pau was the sole source of the red scoria that the prehistoric Rapanui used to carve the pukao (topknots) that they put on the heads of some of their iconic moai statues.[1] The stone from Puna Pau was also used for ahu facia blocks and a non-standard moai found in front of one of the ahu at Vinapu.[2] It was not used to fashion the crouching moai Tukuturi at Rano Raraku, which is of Rano Raraku tuff.[3]
Archaeological excavations were carried out at Puna Pau between 2009 and 2013[4][5][6] by members of the UK Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project[7] team.
The photo shown here is of the re-erected moai on Ahu Kote Riku, part of the Tahai ceremonial complex, not Ahu Tahai, and the topknot is not the original of Puna Pau red scoria, which is now in Hanga Roa cemetery, but a replacement made of red scoria from another location.[1][8]
^ abSeager Thomas, Mike (2014). "Stone use and avoidance on Easter Island. Red scoria from the topknot quarry at Puna Pau and other sources". Archaeology in Oceania. 49 (2).
^Heyerdahl, Thor; Ferdon, Edwin (1961). The Archaeology of Easter Island. New York: Rand McNally & Co.
^Mike Seager Thomas pers. comm.[unreliable source?]
^LOC (2009). Excavations at Puna Pau, 2009. Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project Interim Reports 3. London: UCL Institute of Archaeology Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project.
^LOC (2012). Excavations and Survey at Puna Pau, 2012. Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project Interim Reports 6. London: UCL Institute of Archaeology Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project.
^LOC (2013). Excavation and Survey at Puna Pau, 2013. Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project Interim Reports 8. London: UCL Institute of Archaeology Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project.
^UCL (2019-01-22). "Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
Maunga PunaPau is a small crater or cinder cone and prehistoric quarry on the outskirts of Hanga Roa in the south west of Easter Island (a Chilean island...
light-red volcanic scoria, which was quarried from a single source at PunaPau. Pukao were not made until the 15th–16th centuries and are later additions...
other volcanic features include the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone PunaPau and many volcanic caves including lava tubes. Poike used to be a separate...
pukao were carved out of red scoria, a very light rock from a quarry at PunaPau. Red itself is considered a sacred color in Polynesia. The added pukao...
industrial uses of volcanic rocks. On Rapa Nui/Easter Island, the quarry of PunaPau was the source of reddish scoria used to carve the pukao (topknots) for...
Group Carrán-Los Venados, Chile Mirador Los Venados Group Easter Island PunaPau Royal Society Volcano, Antarctica Cerro Volcánico, Argentina Mount Mayabobo...
other volcanic features include the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone PunaPau and many volcanic caves including lava tubes. Poike used to be a separate...
and avoidance on Easter Island: red scoria from the topknot quarry at PunaPau and other sources". Archaeology in Oceania. 49 (2): 104–106. "UNESCO World...
statues lying scattered and un restored. There are paths branching off to PunaPau, which is a quarry of low volcanic crater with red coloured rocks known...
Englert Anthropological Museum, the ceremonial center Tahai, the quarries of PunaPau and Rano Raraku, visiting the different ahus on the beaches of Anakena...
cones and other volcanic features: the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone PunaPau and many volcanic caves (including lava tubes). Easter Island and its surrounding...
voice and piano (19??) Piezas Infantiles, for piano (1934) Impresiones de la Puna, for flute and string quartet (1934) Concierto argentino, for piano and orchestra...
Anarhistlik Partei, EAP) and on February 22, 2006, by RedBlack (Estonian: PunaMust, PM). Estonian punk Socialism in Estonia Martinson, Karl. "Noorteliikumine...
Greenpeace International. Greenpeace. Retrieved 19 February 2016. "Kalaopas - Puna-ahven". WWF Finland (in Finnish). WWF Finland. Retrieved 19 February 2016...
source of the hula on Hawaiʻi, in the Puna district at the Hāʻena shoreline. The ancient hula Ke Haʻa Ala Puna describes this event. Another story is...
density currents related to the Holocene Cerro Blanco eruption (Southern Puna plateau, Argentina)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 98: 102482...
(from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix) Académie Tahitienne – Fare Vānaʼa Puna Reo – Cultural Association, English section too Index cards of plant and...
higher elevations from 3,500 to 4,500 meters (11,483 to 14,764 ft), the Puna ecoregion, the temperature varies from −10 to 8 °C (14.0 to 46.4 °F) during...
Maasai) in Tanzania 1998 – Trip to the Altai Mountains (Mongolia) and to Puna de Atacama (Andes) 1999 – Filming: San Francisco Peaks, Arizona (Holy mountain...
Global Information