- Moai - Wikipedia
It is thought that the moai with carved eye sockets were probably allocated to the ahu and ceremonial sites, suggesting that a selective Rapa Nui hierarchy was attributed to the moai design until its demise with the advent of the religion revolving around the tangata manu
- Walking with Moai: Unlocking the mysteries of Easter Island stone . . .
A study using 11,600 aerial drone photos to map a mountainous quarry in 3D reveals more about how the island's famed stone sentinels were created and moved to their final resting places
- Moai Statues History: Unlocking the Mysteries of Easter Island
Easter Island's Moai statues, created by the Rapa Nui people between 1400 and 1650 AD, serve as iconic symbols of the island's culture, spiritual beliefs, and societal structure
- Everything to know about Easter Islands iconic statues
What are the moai—and who built them? At latest count on the island, there are 1,043 complete moai, enormous statues with prominent heads made from volcanic stone
- Map, Statues, Heads, History, Moai, Facts - Britannica
How were the moai statues built and moved across the island? Why is Easter Island considered important in world history and archaeology?
- The Moai Statues of Easter Island and How They Were Moved
The moai of Easter Island are more than statues; they are guardians of memory They remind us of a people who carved identity into stone, who honored their ancestors with monumental devotion, and who faced both triumph and tragedy in their isolated world
- Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Moai - Smarthistory
The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 C E until the second half of the seventeenth century Over a few hundred years the inhabitants of this remote island quarried, carved and erected around 887 moai
- Moai - New World Encyclopedia
Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500 Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter
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