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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Easter Island Statues


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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

The Easter Island Head Statues have bodies how did we not notice this before The Easter Island Statue Project EISP is a private research program and archive created by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP founder and director,... EISP and this AIA funded project are devoted to six discrete but intricately interwoven activities that are also AIA goals: excavation, conservation, data collection and management, preservation and stewardship advocacy...
easter island statues excavation