It’s easy to look at the pyramids or the giant stone statues of Easter Island and wonder how ancient civilizations built them. Now, anthropologists have put forward a new theory of how the Rapa ...

Some ancient statues on Easter Island wear multi-ton stone "hats" known as pukao.A team of researchers say that a technique called parbuckling was most likely used to move the hats into place.

Almost a thousand stone figures—each weighing tons—dot Easter Island. ... What sets this team’s approach apart, he says, is that they looked at the statues and hats themselves for evidence.

The colossal hats ( pukao ) of monumental statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): Analyses of pukao variability, transport, and emplacement. Journal of Archaeological Science , 2018; DOI: 10. ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues. A team of researchers that includes experts ...

The statues aren’t exactly unique to Easter Island, but instead appear to be part of a broader Polynesian tradition of erecting stone monuments to honour ancestors, Lipo said.

WASHINGTON: Scientists have decoded how 13-tonne stone hats were placed atop the giant Easter Island statues built hundreds of years ago. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island in Chile, sits in the Southern ...

Easter Island hats Since Europeans arrived at the location in the 1700s, people have wondered how the residents of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, off the coast of Chile, raised their majestic statues.

Some ancient statues on Easter Island wear multi-ton stone "hats" known as pukao.A team of researchers say that a technique called parbuckling was most likely used to move the hats into place.

How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study of Easter Island statues and the red hats that sit atop some of them.

Researchers say they might have figured out how Easter Islanders managed to move carved stones weighing many tons across the island and to the top of the famous statues known as moai. Back in 2012 ...