Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

He uses this to support that a pre-existing population arrived 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely ...

The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians. Hancock argues that the first settlers arrived on Easter Island about ...

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On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the ... of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. The moai and ceremonial ...

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