The moai at Ahu Tongariki lined up from the south. It's a rowdy bunch. Only one of them wears a "hat"/pukao, and the tallest one is the largest moai ever to sta
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Ahu Tongariki

In 1960 a wave from a Chilean quake threw Ahu Tongariki's fallen moai more than 150 m inland.

Who toppled the moai, and why would a society bring down its own ancestors?

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Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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