Photograph by Susan Seubert One theory of how moai were transported is similar to how megaliths were moved at Stonehenge: workers loaded the enormous statues onto wooden sleds, which rolled across ...

It is not certain how the moai – which average 13 feet in height and weigh many tons -- were transported to their ahu. One theory is that they were moved as if they were standing, dragged with ...

Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

As to what the moai are meant to signify, the prevailing theory is that they represent the Rapa Nui’s ancestral chiefs—leaders who, in their cosmological view of the world, descended from gods ...

Workers supposedly heaved the moai onto the logs and rolled them across the island to their final resting spots. Yet this log theory ignored the oral history of the Rapanui people who recalled the ...

His theory is based on a study suggesting banana ... In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue. Dr. Dale F. Simpson Jr., an archaeologist who has studied the Moai, refuted ...

One theory posits that the famous moai statues of Easter Island are linked to the downfall of the Rapanui. Source: SBS The question of what happened to the Rapanui, Easter Island’s native ...

Lipo has long challenged that narrative, arguing as far back as 2007 against the "ecocide" theory. He and Hunt published a paper that year noting the lack of evidence of any warfare on Easter ...

Rapa Nui presented an archeological mystery: The moai stand as high as 33 feet ... was as high as 17,000—which could support the theory that ecocide reduced the population to the 3000 people ...

The real Moai average 13 feet high and weigh about ... but Smith says recent studies shed doubt on that theory. As many as 95 percent of the statues are made of solidified volcanic ash, which ...

Several moai at dawn at Ahu Tongariki ... as proposed by the ecocide theory. Instead their analysis suggests that Rapa Nui was home to a small population that steadily increased in size after ...