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Easter Island
He named it Easter Island . Near the coastline, his crew saw small boats of the local people setting off to greet his ship. Scanning the coastline of the
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NOVA Online presents Secrets of Easter Island . 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
30. The Stone Heads of Easter Island
4 Apr 2007 Have you ever heard the true story of Easter Island in the South Pacific? It's a hair- raising tale of. They began cutting down the island's trees for timber to move the statues . Vote in the travel poll
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Easter Island - Scholarly books, journals and articles Easter Island at Questia, Farming and sheep raising are the principal occupations; wool Read More. Carved from soft volcanic tufa, the statues are from 10 to 40 ft (3–12 m)
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8 May 2009 Drawings by Jan Van Tilburg depict our method of raising the
Levers: Raising the Moai on Easter Island
16 Dec 2008 (Newser) – A “moai”—one of the giant statues of elongated heads on Easter Island —will travel to Paris in 2010 on a mission to challenge the
Easter Island
Like other Easter Island sites the statues were found knocked off the ahu, team spent several months raising the statues to their original positions.
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by ES Sites - Related articles Easter Island , Chile, is famous for its tall stone statues called Moai. or raising the sculptures (moai) that symbolised the island's landscape.
The stone heads of Easter Island
14 Apr 2010 Moai Statues of Easter Island . When Europeans arrived on Easter Island in the South they would raise the statue to a vertical position.
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A tiny triangle of land in the South Pacific, Easter Island features The statues reveal their creators to be master craftsmen and engineers, In 1888, Chile annexed Easter Island , leasing much of the land for sheep raising .
Easter Island : stones, history
Easter Island has long been the subject of curiosity and speculation. How and why did its inhabitants carve and transport the massive statues which surround
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The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); Aug 15, 2010; 700+ Words ...couple of
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13 Mar 2010 Easter Island has been the subject of a great controversy on the question of .... in order to raise the sarsen stones, they erected that.
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For a photo gallery of the project and Easter Island click HERE. shoulder, and head, and it can be used as a lever to raise the statue at the Ahu (this
Easter Island's environment drama
1 May 2009 Katherine Routledge, co-leader of the Mana Expedition to Easter Island , 1913- 1915, collected some names of statues that were said,