The gargantuan heads of Easter Island may have finally tacked on an artist credit — or several, it turns out.
The over 900 statues on Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for the Chilean territory, had long been thought by researchers to be carved by hundreds of workers in a single chiefdom sometime during the 13th century. However, new research has led scientists to believe that each individual statue — called the moai — was most likely carved by competing clans or families.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/science/mystery-of-who-built-over-900-multi-ton-easter-island-statues-shocks-researchers/
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