Jo Anne Van Tilburg

Jo Anne Van Tilburg is a prominent archaeologist and the director of the Easter Island Statue Project at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her extensive research on the moai statues of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and has been a vocal critic of various theories regarding their construction and transportation. Recently, she was mentioned in the news in relation to an ongoing debate about the hypothesis of how these monumental statues were moved across the island, emphasizing her stance that some popular experimental demonstrations lack scientific rigor.