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Anyone else wondering why it took so long to look below the surface?

• AdamTReineke 15y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ahu_Tongariki.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ahu_Tongariki.jpg The article has an image of excavated ones that have short bodies. Seems like this one was unusually tall.
  • dalke 15y ago
    Relevant quote from that WP link: "Though moai are whole-body statues, they are commonly referred to as "Easter Island heads". This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads and partly because, from the invention of photography until the 1950s, the only moai standing on the island were the statues on the slopes of Rano Raraku, many of which are buried to their shoulders. Some of the "heads" at Rano Raraku have been excavated and their bodies seen, and observed to have markings that had been protected from erosion by their burial."