Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent conflict among the Rapanui; sharp obsidian flakes that other archaeologists see as weapons, they see as farm tools. The moai helped ...

Researchers discovered the food remnants by identifying starch grains clinging to obsidian blades at the archaeological ... monolithic human statues called moai that were erected on stone ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...