A NICELY CARVED STATUE

STILL LAYING IN THE QUARRY
EASTER ISLAND
PICTURE CREDIT GEORGE FRISON

    Ancestor worship was quite common in one form

or another within prehistoric cultures around the world. 

It has been suggested that these statues were ancestor

figures. They are carved in a human form with very

angular eyes, noses and chins and some have elongated
ears with ear spools. The bodies have no legs and end

at the abdomen. Arms are carved down the sides with

long fingers that meet across the lower body in what has

been described as a stylized loin cloth.

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