and the statues themselves, had to traverse several miles over very rough and hilly terrain. What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants, which weighed, on average ...

Pavel Pavel did his statue moving in 1986, but had thought about ... I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the Easter Island statues, but could the stones that were made into the statues ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... the stone,” Pakarati says of the carvers. “They could move statues from here to Tahai, which is 15 kilometers away, without ...

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

Today we're on an island ... The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... also by limiting population growth: People raised statues rather than children. What’s more, moving the moai required few people and no wood ...

Moving these statues would have taken days ... There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall - how they ever would have erected it goodness only knows.

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with at least two layovers, take about 30 hours. However, standing face to face ...

Today we're on an island ... The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues ...