Ahu Vinapu is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Eastern Polynesia. The ceremonial center of Vinapu includes one of the larger ahu on...
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examples of Easter Island stone masonry is the rear wall of the ahu at Vinapu. Made without mortar by shaping hard basalt rocks of up to 7,000 kg (6.9...
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Stone work Moai Pukao Archaeological sites Ahu Akivi Ahu Tongariki Ahu Vinapu Anakena Orongo Puna Pau Rano Raraku Rapa Nui National Park Tahai...
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masonry. Lezhe Chaonia And others Chufut-Kale Mangup Vorontsov Palace Ahu Vinapu Ingapirca Bomarsund Fortress Suomenlinna Anakopia Fortress Ateni Sioni Church...
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ahu, the most famous of which are Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu, and Ahu Vinapu. Some moai have hats of red volcanic stone known as Pukao. Currently, the...
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again in 1886 by the American sloop USS Mohican, whose crew excavated Ahu Vinapu with dynamite. Father Roussel made a number of pastoral visits in the decade...
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Mulloy restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo, Vinapu, Ahu Ko Te Riku, Ahu Vai Ure and the rest of the ceremonial center at Tahai...
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restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo and Vinapu, the ceremonial center at Tahai now constitutes an integral part of the...
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pre-Columbian Amerindian stonework, such as at Tihuanaco. He said of Ahu Vinapu's retaining wall, "No Polynesian fisherman would have been capable of conceiving...
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facia blocks and a non-standard moai found in front of one of the ahu at Vinapu. It was not used to fashion the crouching moai Tukuturi at Rano Raraku,...
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world. The pigments were created by vegetables and minerals from the Ahu Vinapu area mixed with shark oil. A taheta can be found in the cave, which is a...
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wooden dowels». During the night they spent in the cove today known as Vinapu, they observed that the indigenous people were taking earth from a nearby...
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