Amazing Discovery: Heads From Easter Island Have Bodies

Easter Island does it again! Not only that there are mysterious heads over there but those heads have bodies too.

The Easter Island Statue Project excavations recently exposed the torsos of two seven meters tall statues.  Thousands of visitors visiting the island were astonished to see that.

The team also discovered:

•     the dirt and detritus partially burying the statues was washed down from above and not deliberately placed there to bury, protect, or support the statues
•     the statues were erected in place and stand on stone pavements.
•     post holes were cut into bedrock to support upright tree trunks
•     rope guides were cut into bedrock around the post holes
•     posts, ropes, stones, and different types of stone tools were all used to carve and raise the statues upright

Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. This special territory of Chile  is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people.

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