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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

© Josh Haner/The New York Times

The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of Easter Island, were hewed from compacted ash in a quarry inside the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano between A.D. 1200 and 1700.
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