Turns Out Those Easter Island Heads Have Entire Bodies Hidden Underground

But not all of them were even finished.

Easter Island
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Tuff is a strange thing. While it’s mostly soft, every once in a while, carvers would come across inclusions of hard rock inside of it. Rather than attempt to carve it (what a pain in the ass that would have been), they’d simply abandon the statue in order to start a new one.

 

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