Jun 5, 2018 · Archaeologists put on their thinking caps to solve a long-standing puzzle about another kind of cap: the enormous stone "hats" that sit atop the heads of colossal statues on Easter Island, a place...

Pukao are the hat-like structures or topknots formerly placed on top of some moai statues on Easter Island. [1] They were all carved from a very light-red volcanic scoria, which was quarried from a single source at Puna Pau.

Jun 5, 2018 · Experts think they have figured out how the ancient Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, put those enormous red stone hats on top of the island’s famous giant statues....

Jun 5, 2018 · When a Spanish expedition visited Easter Island in 1770, the explorers marveled at how precariously balanced the hats seemed to be atop the 33-foot stone statues.

Jun 12, 2018 · Each of these moai were adorned with 13-ton hats made of a different type of stone that came from a separate quarry. Now, reports Kat Eschner at Popular Science, researchers think they’ve figured...

Jun 3, 2018 · UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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.

Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these are what this island is famous for. The moais were built in approximately 1400 - 1650 A.D. by the natives of this island also known as Rapa Nui. Many know them as the Easter Island heads.

Jun 5, 2018 · Centuries of weather, erosion, and animal activity have seen the majority of these rock hats fall back to Earth, where they rest crumbled and damaged around the island surface – which is one of the reasons you rarely see this monumental …

Apr 24, 2015 · SAN FRANCISCO — The distinctive headgear worn by some of the famous Easter Island statues may have been rolled up ramps to reach those high perches, a new study suggests.

Jun 7, 2018 · Ancient Easter Islanders were able to move massive stone hats and place them on top of giant statues, with little effort and resources. Credit Sean Hixon.