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Archaeological site on Easter Island, Chile
Ahu Vinapu is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Eastern Polynesia. The ceremonial center of Vinapu includes one of the larger ahu
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Monolithic statues on Easter Island
but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads, which
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Island in the southeastern Pacific
highest-quality examples of Easter Island stone masonry is the rear wall of the ahu at Vinapu. Made without mortar by shaping hard basalt rocks of up to 7,000 kg
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Indigenous Polynesian people of Easter Island
rest on large stone platforms called ahu, the most famous of which are Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu, and Ahu Vinapu. Some moai have hats of red volcanic
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again in 1886 by the American sloop USS Mohican, whose crew excavated Ahu Vinapu with dynamite. Father Roussel made a number of pastoral visits in the
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Masonry comprising stones with over 4 face angles
already laid blocks, which were then used to shape the to-be-adjoined ones. Ahu Vinapu Bomarsund Fortress Delphi Keramikos Nekromanteion In Italy, polygonal
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Archaeological site on Easter Island
1972. Like other Mulloy restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo and Vinapu, the ceremonial center at Tahai now constitutes
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Book by Thor Heyerdahl
pre-Columbian Amerindian stonework, such as at Tihuanaco. He said of Ahu Vinapu's retaining wall, "No Polynesian fisherman would have been capable of conceiving
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Prehistoric quarry in Easter Island
from Puna Pau was also used for ahu facia blocks and a non-standard moai found in front of one of the ahu at Vinapu. It was not used to fashion the crouching
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American anthropologist
Nui). The Mulloy restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo, Vinapu, Ahu Ko Te Riku, Ahu Vai Ure and the rest of the ceremonial
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Sea cave on Easter Island, Chile
world. The pigments were created by vegetables and minerals from the Ahu Vinapu area mixed with shark oil. A taheta can be found in the cave, which is
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