Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai on Easter Island, uncovering the large stone statue in a dry lake bed.
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Geologists were studying the site after fires swept through the area last year. It could mean more figures and tools used by the ancestral Rapa Nui people are buried nearby in the once-underwater site, scientists said.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It meant that the lake had likely dried at some point in the past, and perhaps the Rapa Nui were taking advantage of that to move the statue, he added.Handout picture released by the Ma’u Henua Rapa Nui Indigenous community showing a moai, the renown monumental statues of human figures with giant heads found across Easter Island, which was discovered in the dried bed of the Rano Raraku lake, in the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano, in Chile’s Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, on Feb.
“What we’ve seen today is very important, because this is part of the history of the Rapa Nui people,” said Salvador Atan Hito, a leader of the Ma’u Henua Indigenous community overseeing the site. The half-buried, 1.5-metre moai will now undergo tests to determine what state it is in, researchers said. While Easter Island is littered with hundreds of the towering stone heads they face threats from the elements, including the fires which led to this statue’s discovery.
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