2019年12月12日 · Van Tilburg and her team, working with geoarchaeologist and soils specialist Sarah Sherwood, believe they have found scientific evidence of that long-hypothesized meaning thanks to careful study of two particular Moai excavated over five years in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern side of the Polynesian island.

2024年2月9日 · In this article, we speak with Britton Shepardson, a prominent archaeologist, author of the book Moái: A New Look at Old Faces and founder of the Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) organization. Shepardson shares little-known insights into these monoliths and outlines the importance of safeguarding Rapa Nui archeology.

Moai or moʻai (/ ˈmoʊ.aɪ / ⓘ MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. [1][2] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on st...

2007年3月31日 · On this outpost nearly 2,300 miles west of South America and 1,100 miles from the nearest island, the newcomers chiseled away at volcanic stone, carving moai, monolithic statues built to honor ...

2025年2月6日 · The Moai statues of Easter Island are enduring symbols of the ingenuity and resilience of the Rapa Nui people. While much about their construction and purpose remains shrouded in mystery, recent archaeological findings have shed new …

2019年1月11日 · When it comes to Easter Island’s towering stone heads, there’s now one fewer mystery to solve. Researchers have long puzzled over why the huge statues were placed where they are.

2019年12月16日 · For hundreds of years, they stood watch in silence: the 'moai', a mysterious league of almost 1,000 carved monolithic statues, erected across the isolated landscape of Easter Island (Rapa Nui).

2024年1月18日 · The Easter Island Moai mystery persists, making it a subject of ongoing fascination and study. Why were almost a thousand intricately carved statues, some weighing over eighty tonnes, created? What were they used for? Why were they placed so strategically?

Easter Island must surely be one of the greatest mysteries of human civilisation. Many theories have been formed over the years about where the original inhabitants came from, why they built hundreds of monumental statues called Moai, how they transported them and why the people who made them eventually died out.

2022年3月6日 · The archaeological Disneyland that is Easter Island has entered popular imagination thanks to the existence of 887 giant monolithic statues named moai which Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is a remote Chilean island a few thousand kilometers west of South America in the Pacific Ocean.