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The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of Easter Island’s Moai
The moai are thought to represent the ancestors ... Ahu Akahanga, and Anakena Beach. The cost was 60,000 Chilean pesos or ...
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Exploring Easter Island: Top 5 Moai Statue Sites
Constructed atop Anakena Beach on the northern coast of Easter Island, Ahu Nau Nau is one of the most well-preserved and ...
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Anakena Beach
This is the most Polynesian-looking part of the island, a true paradise with a grove of coconut palms that stretches to a white sand beach and a ... by an ahu with six moai, a stark reminder ...
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If They Could Only Talk
The moai were carved with stone tools ... University of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University Long Beach, who have studied the island for the past decade. It’s a vision peopled ...
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Stone Giants
The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...