It's about an excavated Easter Island statue: "The excavation team also found about 800 grams of natural red pigment — nearly two pounds — in the burial hole, along with a human burial." This is from a current UCLA project to excavate a couple of the "heads."
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkrJFoqbrVT83JX7RUxmGfDwU0hfl_suCrOzSXhej4ei0MFyU5H653kIT4yQQaG8zApmjgiY8Iv-_rxyk_P8Fe8QPEX3vli4lJFUnsVuDP3oACIOJ7l15OPyWbYSIodDKhyoLQ7CrE-lg/s640/EasterIsland1.jpg)
(click image to go to article)
Thor Heyderdahl had already excavated one in the 1950's. This image also came from the article above.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_TrBkabwuDCyczLZS3mfKeqiIIZtBy7IcwXoHAxGgS-uKPpnSUbhOWc6ZO5mDRHqOFcbJCfxbvvYbdKnWsJP0TfRm4qVE50hGN9scHOIS2HHSPl18hjOkNJbdT9tRgvmMzABBnFO7PbY/s400/234519_ThorHeyerdahl.jpg)