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How Did Easter Island Get Its Statues? The Fascinating Story of the Moai
The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills ... About 300 to 400 people worked together on this project, showing the importance of teamwork. The Rapa Nui people’s ability to ...
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If They Could Only Talk
director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people. To feed the people, even more land had to be cleared. When the wood was gone and civil war ...
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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...
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The Enduring Mystery of Easter Island’s Statues
However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he ... glory remained in the form of head-shaped statues (called moai) scattered across the island’s shore. These moai may not be as ...