Tuna and salmon are imported, primarily for tourists. There are no reports of moai building after Europeans arrived in the 18th century. By then Easter Island had only a few scrawny trees.

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers ... theorize that the statues played an important role in community building around natural resources. However, not all Easter Island ...

including the effect of bed tilting and how that is handled in the Moai’s software. We wished we had seen more of the actual build process, but we suppose with the working parts locked away to ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers ... why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building effort? Unfortunately, there is no written ...