But these sculptured stones are on the other side of the world from Guam and the rest of the islands in the Marianas. They are located at Stonehenge in the British Isles.
Archaeologists speculate that they served as calendars in ancient times.
No one knows precisely why the large statutes of humans found on Easter Island were constructed from the waist up and emplaced with their backs to the sea. In neighboring Pohnpei , here in Micronesia, are these huge platforms and enclosures at Nan Madol which are exceedingly difficult to reach except at high tide. Burial sites have been found in them but many unanswered questions remain. And, here at home , in the Marianas, the ancestral home of the Chamorro people, are found the Latte Stones, of simple design but, nevertheless, imposing, majestic, and functional. Such accomplishments would be engineering marvels even today.