Easter Island Research Paper

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The Easter Island or Isla de Pascua covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean 2,300 miles from Chiles west coast. It currently has 887 still existing statues averaging 13 feet tall carved out of tuff which is the light, porous rock formed by consolidated volcanic ash on the island which proved that there was a rich culture among the settlers which first discovered it. These staues were placed on ceremonial stone platforms called ahus however till this day there is no information on why these statues were created in such numbers and scale in addition to how were they even moved throughout the island. During the middle stages of the islands discovery (1050- 1680) the ahus also contained burial chambers and the images portrayed

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