One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous ... the front and sides of a statue, then gradually separate the back from the quarry rock. The statue would then ...

a soft volcanic ash found on Easter Island. Without metal tools, the artisans used their knowledge to shape the statues. The ...

They point out in their book, "The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island" (Free ... learning to find archaeological rock gardens on the island, as these gardens were used ...

Stock image of a row of moai statues on Easter island looking eroded ... the Rapa Nui people harvested a volcanic rock made of consolidated ash called lapilli tuff from the Rano Raraku crater ...

The tallest standing statue on Easter Island currently is only 33 feet tall ... According to Pitts, El Gigante is still attached to the quarry rock at Rano Raraku, lying on its back.

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the ... which enabled these humanlike statues to stand upright and rock forward from side-to-side while being guided by ropes ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters ... hundreds of these large-headed statues were carved directly from rock quarries and spread across the island. The statues, modeled after deified ...

Narrator] Most visitors come all the way to Easter Island because of these stone ... to match the fragile density of the ancient statues volcanic rock, and made it walk. - In our experiment ...

Moai statues on Easter Island Photo by Andia / Universal Images ... The area contains over 300 moai, as well as the volcanic rock quarry they originated from. Chile’s National Monuments Council ...

Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic ... that now belongs to Chile and is widely known as Easter Island, the loss of any moai would be a blow to ancient cultural ...