Moai statues near Rano Raraku volcano, Rapa-Nui National Park, Chile. Easter Island's famous moai, monumental human figures carved from the local quarried volcanic rocks, have long puzzled ...

Theory: I am a fifth-grade student and have been researching Easter Island for my school project. I have read your plans to experiment with the best ways to move the moai.

That moai were placed horizontally on sleds, and dragged over logs. Island legend says the statues walked, and some archaeologists have tested that theory as well, moving them upright, carefully ...

Method: Interested in legendary lore that the moai walked, Pavel Pavel based his theory on the assumption that an upright moai was relatively stable; each statue has a low center of gravity thanks ...

Some ancient sites defy explanation,built with such precision, scale, or purpose that even modern science struggles to ...

One theory of how moai were transported is similar to how megaliths were moved at Stonehenge: workers loaded the enormous statues onto wooden sleds, which rolled across the land on tree trunks.

To move each moai, two groups may have rocked it side to side while a rear group kept it upright. Illustration by Fernando G. Baptista, National Geographic New Theory Says Giant Statues Rocked ...

Several moai at dawn at Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui. Genetic research is providing new insights into the demographic history of the island. Natalia Solar CC license 4.0.

Each moai preserves precious information about its tribe. ... One theory is that they were moved as if they were standing, dragged with small turns as one would do with a refrigerator.

In 2018, Lipo proposed an intriguing hypothesis for how the islanders placed red hats on top of some moai; those can weigh up to 13 tons.He suggested the inhabitants used ropes to roll the hats up ...