Ahu Akivi - Mysterious Places in the World

Ahu Akivi is an unusual site in several respects
A low ahu supports 7 statues all very similar in height and style

The site is odd in that it is located far inland and the statues
were erected to face the ocean

The only site where this was done
Like other Easter Island sites the statues were
found knocked off the ahu, lying face down
in the ground. In 1960
Archeologist William Mulloy's team spent
several months raising the statues to their original positions


During the excavation and restoration of this site
many cremation pits were uncovered behind the ahu
The pits contained fragments of bone, shells, fishing implements
and obsidian flakes. Whether sites like these
were used regularly for cremations
and or burials is not certain

At other sites skeletons have been found buried
within the ahu structure
but these burials are believed to have occurred
after the statues were toppled


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