Van Tilburg concludes, "The moai thus mediates between sky and earth, people and chiefs, and chiefs and gods." The word "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat ...

We'll never truly know. For comparison's sake, the largest moai to ever be successfully erected on a platform is Ahu Te Pito ...

About one mile east of Rano Raraku volcano is Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues.

Here’s everything you need to know about photographing Easter Island… The moai of Easter Island comes in three parts: ahu-moai-topknot (platform-monolith-headress). They represent ancestors ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

The moai were carved with stone tools, mostly in a single quarry, then transported without draft animals or wheels to massive stone platforms, or ahu, up to 11 miles away. Tuki’s question—how ...

Rapa Nui’s megaliths are called moai, and 15 of them stand with their backs to the Pacific Ocean at a site known as ahu Tongarikia. Visitors congregate as close as permitted to the statues ...

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