Who carved the statues of Easter Island?
Stone Giants Walking
Who carved the statues of Easter Island?
They stand in rows along the coast of a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — stone giants, hundreds of them, staring inland with deep-set eyes. Some have topknots perched on their heads like stone hats. Who on Earth had the tools, the time, and the sheer determination to carve nearly a thousand enormous statues out of solid rock?
The Rapa Nui people carved them — Polynesian seafarers who arrived on the island around 1200 CE in double-hulled canoes, navigating by stars across thousands of miles of open ocean. They found a volcanic island covered in palm forests, claimed it as home, and over the next few centuries built one of the most ambitious sculpture projects in human history.
