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Basalt

A dense, hard, dark brown-to-black volcanic igneous rock, consisting of feldspar and mafic minerals such as augite or olivine.

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Works of Art

Pōhaku kuʻi ʻai, otherwise known as the poi pounder

c. 1800–today

Olmec Colossal Heads

c. 1600–350 B.C.E.

Puebla de los Ángeles and the classical architectural tradition

1531–1821

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Moai

c. 1250–1600

Nan Madol: “In the space between things”

13th–17th century

Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

c. 1250–1600

Inka stone vessels

late 15th century

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

1970

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