It’s easy to look at the pyramids or the giant stone statues of Easter Island and ... anthropologists have put forward a new theory of how the Rapa Nui people pulled off their impressive hat ...

So, how and why did these 13-ton “pukao” hats get up there on top of a 4-meter (13-foot) statue? Archaeologists think they have cracked the case. The island of Rapa Nui was first inhabited in ...

As if the Easter Island statues weren’t enigmatic enough, a few of them are wearing hats—6.5-foot-wide, 13-ton cylinders of cindery red volcanic rock called scoria. The hats are as much of an ...

These moai have puzzled generations of Western anthropologists over the past two centuries: ... he says, is that they looked at the statues and hats themselves for evidence.

Some of Easter Island’s moai statues are adorned with large red hats, the heaviest of which weigh as much as 13 tons. Archaeologists have to struggled to. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

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 ...

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 ...

Hats on for Easter Island statues Date: June 4, 2018 Source: Penn State Summary: 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 ...

They didn’t get them from the L.L Bean catalogue. British archeologists say they now know how the giant stone statues on Easter Island got their fancy red hats. According to Agence France-Pre… ...

Pukao are the hat-like, stone cylinders made of red scoria found atop the heads of moai. Some of the stone hats weigh up to 12 tons. "We've learned they moved the statues in a walking fashion ...

Because the hats were carved separately, archaeologists have questioned how people got the ornaments atop the moai, as the biggest of the statues could weigh 75 tons and stand a staggering 40 feet ...

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.