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thundara  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Easter Island heads have bodies.
The inscriptions are neat, but how are the bodies surprising? The ones that made it to their display clearly have bodies. And the speculation is that the heads scattered around were incompletely transported. Or is there evidence that they were burried there?




cgod  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I never knew they had bodies, thought they were just carved heads.
ecib  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Nor did I for that matter.
thundara  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ah, my mistake then, I did a report on Easter Island two years ago, so I'm a little familiar with at least a snapshot of the history on it. Fascinating place!
thenewgreen  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I never knew either. I was actually blown away by this and was reminded of seeing an iceberg and how a person is not immediately aware of how awesome they are until you see what's below the water.