Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent conflict among the Rapanui; sharp obsidian flakes that other archaeologists see as weapons, they see as farm tools. The moai helped ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

Obsidian artifacts among the rocks confirmed ... communities together in cooperative and competitive ways, such as moai carving and transport, lead to greater resiliency in times of shortfall.

Approximately 1,000 human-faced moai statues dot Easter Island ... Radiocarbon dating of food remnants found on obsidian ...

It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai – mysterious stone figures that each weigh more than a Boeing 737 plane. For years, the island has been the subject of intrigue.