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...

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...

Stone work Moai Pukao Archaeological sites Ahu Akivi Ahu Tongariki Ahu Vinapu Anakena Orongo Puna Pau Rano Raraku Rapa Nui National Park Tahai...

masonry. Lezhe Chaonia And others Chufut-Kale Mangup Vorontsov Palace Ahu Vinapu Ingapirca Bomarsund Fortress Suomenlinna Anakopia Fortress Ateni Sioni Church...

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...

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...

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...

restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo and Vinapu, the ceremonial center at Tahai now constitutes an integral part of the...

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...

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,...

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...

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...