Easter Island’s Moai Statues May Have ‘Walked,’ Study Suggests

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.
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Easter Island statues have full bodies and contain ancient petroglyphs

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...
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Easter Island Was Far Less Isolated Than Previously Believed, Study Reveals

Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...
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Archaeologists Make Groundbreaking Easter Island Discovery

The new research “challenges commonly accepted ideas about the development” of ancient cultures. Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via ...
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Skeletal biology of the ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) / edited by Vincent H. Stefan (Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY) and George W. Gill (University of Wyoming)

Introduction: Research overview / George W. Gill -- Review of Polynesian and Pacific skeletal biology / Michael Pietrusewsky and Michele Toomay Douglas -- Chronology and Easter Island prehistory / ...