Article: Digital mapping could tell the story of Easter Island.(Originated from The Orange County Register)

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. _ Tony Huntley sets his ``time machine'' for the 16th century, commanding a desktop computer to piece together an image of Easter Island that offers a fresh look at one of archaeology's great mysteries.

How and why did a primitive, isolated society of Polynesians carve 1,000 stone heads out of volcanic rock and place many of the huge, brooding statues on altars that took years to build?

The Saddleback College biologist tackles the question with what's fast becoming a key tool in archaeology, software that combines different types of field data into the sort of illustration you might find in National Geographic.

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