Here, the moai are more 'standardized' in design, and are believed to have been carved, transported, and erected between AD 1400 and 1600. They stand with their backs to the sea and are believed ...

The moai were carved with stone tools ... When the Polynesian settlers arrived at Rapa Nui, they had been at sea for weeks in open canoes. There were probably only a few dozen of them.

Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai he's just carved ... the land like those statues with their backs to the sea. These stared out beyond the island, across the ocean ...

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The volcanic stone figures, called moai in the island’s native Polynesian ... this results in the flow of freshwater directly into the sea. Humans can thus take advantage of these sources ...

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

“The carved designs - including birds, sea creatures, canoes and human figures - mimic natural ... which they carved and marked as they did their own bodies and the moai statues. “These people must ...