Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...
Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...
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Myth to motion: How Easter Islanders moved their towering stone giants upright
The ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the giant statues in an upright, zig-zag motion along specially designed, concave roads. This method is said to be both energy-efficient and ...
Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo and the University of Arizona’s Terry Hunt have been studying the monoliths and concluded that the Rapa Nui people likely used a rope and ...
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