A new Moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the remote inhabited island.
" through a translator at the site. "Because it's here in the lake and nobody knows this exists -- even the ancestors, our grandparents don't knowThere are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from volcanic tuff, according to Dr. Terry Hunt, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the Rapa Nui for 20 years.
"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up, a new discovery, and in this case, in the lake, at the statue quarry," he said. "There have been no moai found in the dry bed or in what was previously a lake, so this is a first." "Under the dry conditions that we have now, we may find more. They've been hidden by the tall reeds that grow in the lake bed and prospecting with something that can detect what's under the ground surface may tell us that there are in fact more moai in the lakebed sediments," Hunt said. "When there's one moai in the lake, there's probably more."
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