Website detailing EISP history and current field work in the documentation and inventory of moai on Easter Island.
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monolithic statues of Rapa Nui (Easter
Island) are called moai in
the Rapanui language. Carved on the island by the ancestors of the
current population, approximately 50% of the total of 887 statues
remain in the immediate vicinity of Rano Raraku, the quarry in which
they were produced. The
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The story of a team of archaeologists and a 75-person crew who sought to unravel the mystery of how hundreds of giant stone statues were moved and erected.
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NOVA Online presents Secrets of Easter Island
This is the story of a team of archaeologists and a
75-person crew who sought to unravel a central mystery of Easter
Island: how hundreds of giant stone statues that dominate the island's
coast were moved and erected. For one month, the team struggled to raise a
10-ton moai, using only the tools
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A guide to the island including objective facts and personal views with opinions.
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Easter Island history, legends, facts, pictures and present day information.
Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a small triangular multi - volcanoed mound, roughly 14 miles long by seven miles wide. In total, Easter Island is only 69 square miles. Easter Island lies 2,400 miles West of the coast of Chile and 2,500 miles East of Tahiti. Easter Islands' closest human
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