Posted on 03/18/2018 2:16:18 PM PDT by Aliska
As the director of the Easter Island Statue Project — the longest-continuous collaborative artifact inventory ever conducted on the Polynesian island that belongs to Chile — Van Tilburg has opened a window on one of the greatest achievements of Pacific prehistory on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.
She and her team of resident Rapa Nui have spent nine years locating and meticulously documenting the nearly 1,000 statues on the island, determining their symbolic meaning and function, and conserving them using state-of-the-art techniques.
After spending four months over the last two years excavating two of the statues and posting the results of their digs on the project’s website, Van Tilburg was surprised to discover that a large segment of the general public hadn’t realized that what they knew only as the Easter Island "heads" actually had bodies.
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Yeah. I didn’t realize the heads had bodies until last year. Weird.
Perhaps a waste of time, but a good way to keep unoccupied people busy all year long, and earning their food. Did the same thing in Egypt with pyramids and temples while the Nile was in flood.
https://www.newsweek.com/easter-island-heads-mystery-solved-rapa-nui-drinking-water-1161827
Easter Island Heads Mystery Solved? Rapa Nui Civilization Built Moai by Freshwater Locations
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