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.

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to experts for centuries. But now, archaeologists have finally answered one of the most burning questions...

2009年11月9日 · Easter Island, located about 2,300 miles off Chile in the South Pacific Ocean, is known for its nearly 900 giant stone statues that date back several centuries.

2024年6月21日 · Now, research involving remote-sensing data and machine learning to map evidence of island farming offers a fresh clue that may help unravel the mysterious demise of the island’s original...

2007年3月31日 · Hundreds of years ago, a small group of Polynesians rowed their wooden outrigger canoes across vast stretches of open sea, navigating by the evening stars and the day's ocean swells. When and why...

2022年1月30日 · But the most mysterious feature of Easter Island is the nearly 1,000 monolithic statues that dot its surface. We still don’t know how exactly the islanders moved the human-head-on-torso...

2024年1月18日 · The Easter Island head mystery is one of humankind’s most baffling enigmas. Standing as silent witnesses to a once thriving civilisation, these colossal stone figures are staggering to behold. Yet even today, the true purpose …

2017年4月25日 · Inhabitants' sketchy verbal evidences report the reductions of the Easter Island population toward the end of 17th Century, leaving secrets behind regarding the destination and interpretation of moai. The heads of moai are their most remarkable feature, and sometimes the ratio size of the head is three-eighths the size of the entire statue.

2018年6月5日 · How on Earth could you ever lift and fit this hulking headwear? This ancient puzzle is just one of many posed by the strange stone legacy of Easter Island, whose unflinching moai statues maintain their silent vigil long centuries after the mysterious collapse of the Polynesian Rapa Nui society that erected them. (Sean Hixon/Penn State)