According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific Ocean ... so everything about this giant had to be big. And bold. The heavy rectangular head is huge, almost as wide as the torso below.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads ... island in the 1860s. Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory ... was relatively stable; each statue has a low center of gravity thanks to a large base and a narrow head. Pavel Pavel used a crew ...