Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without the use of modern ... But now, new evidence is painting a radically different picture – one of hardship, maltreatment and ...

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been created in the image of various paramount chiefs. They were not individualized ...

But the art of Easter Island still looms on the ... so I think people were already starving when they were carving these statues. The early moai were thinner, but these last statues have great ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

“Easter Islanders’ ancestors have been unfairly accused by Westerners of being primitive and warlike, for toppling statues - or moai - and for over-exploiting the island’s natural resources,” she said ...

Moai statues of Easter Island form an integral part ... It is like destroying an artiste’s art to visualise it differently.

From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people ...