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Landmark Americas religious

Ahu Tongariki

1300 CE – 1600 CE · 300 years

Largest ceremonial platform on Rapa Nui, bearing a row of fifteen restored moai facing inland to honor ancestral chiefs.

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Ahu Tongariki on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1279 CE)
  2. Polynesians (1300 CE–1880 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Rapa Nui (1900 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Chile (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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