Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

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On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the ... of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. The moai and ceremonial ...

“This is something produced from my culture. It’s Rapanui.” He shakes his head. “How did they do it?” Easter Island covers just 63 square miles. It lies 2,150 miles west of South America ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...

a stark reminder that you are still on Easter Island. The distinct features of the moai, with carvings on their backs, are accented by the red scoria top knots, or pukaos, on their heads.

The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians. Hancock argues that the first settlers arrived on Easter Island about ...