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 ...

As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

They were placed on the heads of the famous statues all around the coast of ... Dr Hamilton are joint directors of the ”Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project“.

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One ... to their platform in the 1970s. Two of the statues are missing their heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu Nau Nau ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the survey to date on Easter Island...397 are still in ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...

With one rope around the head of the statue and another ... 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 ...

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific ... their beaks touching at the back of the statue's neck. On the back of the statue's head are two stylised canoe paddles, each with what looks ...