easter island statues excavation

Quite amazing that more of the Easter Island statues are below modern grade than above. Newly excavated rock is clean and shows fine detail of fingers and carved symbols. Easter Island background here. Settled about one...


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The Easter Island “Heads” Have Bodies.... This research report has been making the rounds; it discusses recent progress by The Easter Island Statue Project to uncover, study, and catalogue two statues. It includes (among the dry details of the research) a day-by-day journal of the work, as well as remarkable photographs showing the petroglyphs and team members excavating. Above is an image from a previous excavation (source unknown) that shows you the...
The Easter Island “Heads” Have Bodies - Mental Floss

Insane virologist predicts humans will be extinct from climate change within 100 years; 'same fate as the people on Easter Island'... Easter Island is famous for its massive stone statues. Polynesian people settled there, in what was then a pristine tropical island, around the middle of... Interesting that recent and ongoing excavations there are now confirming the oral traditions of the current inhabitants, so they didn't get wiped out. Yes, they did do the statues, there were...
easter island statues excavation