“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter ... by a stone head as ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

Now, these surprising findings could fundamentally change our understanding of ancient life on Easter Island. The people of Rapa Nui, famous for the large stone Moai statues they carved ...

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... farming practices to understand how large a population the island could have ...

Today we're on an island ... stone like this, and have only got stone tools to chip away with, you can't do detail, so everything about this giant had to be big. And bold. The heavy rectangular ...

His models showed that, at that time, a large volcanic plateau could ... our understanding of mantle dynamics. Easter Island, long famous for its stone statues, now offers another legacy—one ...