Turns Out Those Easter Island Heads Have Entire Bodies Hidden Underground

95% of the moai were carved from the volcano Rano Raraku.

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The moai are made from tuff, which is compressed volcanic ash. It’s easy to carve — an important thing, seeing as all they had lying around to do it were toki. Rano Raraku has a lot of tuff. Hence, a lot of moai.

 

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