Ana Kai Tangata
The 'Eat-man Cave': a sea cave in a wall of lava on the coast of Rapa Nui, with red and white paintings of birds on its roof. Routledge, on the Mana Expedition of 1914, saw one bird painted over a sketch of a European ship and concluded the paintings were not very ancient; read here as painted after first European contact (after 1722). Coordinates: Wikipedia, 27 09 42 S 109 26 32 W. Sources checked 2026-11-02: Routledge 1919, full text (Project Gutenberg 69807); Wikipedia.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1919 CE mainstream
described by Routledge in The Mystery of Easter Island (1919), observed in 1914: roof paintings of birds, one over a sketch of a European ship; her reading is that they are not of very ancient date source
Where
27.1617° S, 109.4422° W
Sources
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