How were the Easter Island statues made?
The mystery of the infamous Easter Island stone statues lies in their creation. While no one can be sure how the statues on Easter Island were made or transported, certain theories have taken the foreground based on native oral histories and modern scientific experiments as well as observations made by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and the Easter Island Statue Project.HistoryEaster Island, or Rapa Nui as it is called by current inhabitants, is the most remote and secluded land occupied in the south seas. It is only about 66 square miles and has a temperate climate with mild terrain. Scholar Jared Diamond states in his book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” that the land was occupied by an eastern migration of Polynesian people around the year 900. The Easter Island statues that the island has become infamous are believed to have been symbols of power and wealth between chiefs while the civilization was at its height.FeaturesThe incredible size of the stone statues is what spar
