The following is a brief summary of those attempts. We encourage you to peruse them, and then send in your own theory on how the moai were moved. Like most oral traditions, Rapa Nui folklore has ...

He argues that while similar statues exist across Polynesia, the Easter Island Moai evolved independently, sharing only the common feature of hands positioned near the navel. The theory has ...

Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago. However, Hancock's theory challenges this view, proposing a much earlier date for the creation ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...