Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, sits isolated in the vast Pacific Ocean, famous for the colossal stone faces that stare out to sea. These monolithic statues, known as moai, have fascinated the world for ...

Van Tilburg, Jo Anne, Kaeppler, Adrienne L., Weisler, Marshall, Cristino, Claudio, and Spitzer, Angela. 2008. "Petrographic Analysis of Thin-Sections of Samples from Two Monolithic Statues (Moai), ...