On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... roughed out the statues using stone tools called toki and employed sharp obsidian tools to make finer lines.

However, standing face to face with the moai statues is an indescribable experience. Easter Island, located in the ... the legendary moai statues. These stone giants, carved from volcanic rocks ...

An archaeologist studying a remote Pacific island, world famous for its strange stone statues, says outsiders - and not ... light on the people living on the island of Rapa Nui, named ‘Easter Island’ ...

What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants, which weighed ... protect the moai's protruding belly. The moai lay face down on the sledge. Mulloy suggested that by ...

You're investing that stone with some sort of emotive power, some sort of presence. That thing, that way of making a sculpture, is a religious activity. What actually the Easter Island sculpture ...