The statues, called moai, which sit upon stone platforms called ahu, are the very definition of monumental.

这些被称为摩埃石像的雕像，坐落在被称为阿胡的石头平台上，是真正意义上的纪念碑。

And the question we started to ask ourselves was, 'Why do we find these ahu and moai some places on the landscape but not others?

我们开始问自己的问题是，‘为什么我们在景观的某些地方找到这些 ahu 和 moai 而在其他地方找不到？

And of the 1,000 on the island, about 400 have been moved from the quarry where they originated and placed on ahu located elsewhere.

在岛上的 1, 000 个中，约有 400 个已从它们起源的采石场转移到其他地方的 ahu 上。

Most weigh between 20 and 30 tons. And of the 1,000 on the island, about 400 have been moved from the quarry where they originated and placed on ahu located elsewhere.

大多数重量在20到30吨之间。在岛上的1000人中，大约有400人从他们的发源地转移到了别处的胡岛上。

" Every single time we found a big source of freshwater, there would be a statue and an ahu. And we saw this over and over and over again. And places where we didn't find freshwater, we didn't find statues and ahu."

“每次我们发现一个大的淡水来源，都会有一座雕像和一座阿胡。我们多次看到这种情况。在那些我们没有发现淡水的地方，我们没有发现雕像和阿胡。”