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Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs.
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most people think of the renowned monolithic statues, they think of the heads only
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October 2011, the Easter Island Statue Project began its Season V expedition, revealing remarkable photos showing that the bodies of the statues go far deeper underground than just about anyone had imagined.
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Slideshow of the Easter Island excavation photos]
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technically full-bodied statues have been known to exist on Easter Island for hundreds of years, some of the new petroglyph writings on the recently excavated statues appear fairly unique
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many statues have individual petroglyphs
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these and only one other statue—of over 1,000 we have documented—have  multiple petroglyphs carved as a composition on their backs
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the excavation sites offer some new "strong evidence" of how the Rapa Nui ancestors managed to manipulate the heavy statues into place with limited technological resources
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wrote that her team has found tuna vertebrae near the bottom of a recent excavation
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Excavations of the bodies have been going on for many years
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generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD
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controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried. Was it time and erosion, or were they buried on purpose
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soil surrounding the bodies for so long has preserved interesting carvings
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