a soft volcanic ash found on Easter Island. Without metal tools, the artisans used their knowledge to shape the statues. The hats, called pukao, were made from scoria. This rock came from the Puna ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote ... for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic rock, stand at 13 feet high and weigh 10 metric tons (around ...

We got some excellent photos from outside the rock wall that encircles the ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on ...

and after they carved the rock the spirits entered the statues.” Dr Richards and Dr Hamilton are joint directors of the ”Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project“.

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

Rapanui artisans carved the moai centuries ago from volcanic rock at a quarry a mile away ... director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of ...

ROCK IT, standing up ... this method in rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet, nine tons.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the Easter Island statues, but could the stones ... bottom by setting some around it and moving the rock around the immediate area. Not that many people ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Standing below him, you're immediately conscious of the solid basalt rock that he's made out of. Although we see him only ...

Perched on a rock on Langelinje Pier in the Danish ... Image caption, Hoa Hakananai’a is one of two Easter Island statues in the British Museum collection The Moai were carved by the people ...