Nobody knows who carved the huge stone figures, or why. There are 1000 of them, ranging from 6 feet to more than 30 feet in height. The biggest weighs about 270 tons. All have the same appearance: a long shaped head with an upper torso, a chin and long ears, with arms along the body or arms that rest on the stomach. Some of the statues contain eyes, made in white and red stone and coral. Some of them even sport stone hats that the natives call ''pukao.'' Read the full story.
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For the brown statues that have white eyes, are the eyes separate rocks that are glued into place somehow or natural formations in the same rock that happened to align where the eyes are?
Posted by: Scott Sheppard | March 12, 2010 at 09:12 AM