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Hancock claims a lost civilization built Easter Island's statues 11,000+ years ago
It is riddled with mystery," said archaeologist Dr. Dale ... Hancock rebuffed the criticism, suggesting the Easter Island heads are independent of other similar statues and do not share many ...
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First Inhabitants
Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...
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If They Could Only Talk
“This is something produced from my culture. It’s Rapanui.” He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America ...
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Slideshow: Solving the Easter Island mysteries
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Stone Giants
On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads ... to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders ...
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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.
Easter Island is one of the most ... Polynesians likely began inhabiting the island around 1000 CE. The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers. A 2019 study published in PLOS One ...