The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

“We know that they were transported vertically; it fits all the evidence. What I would say about earlier experiments using logs, for example, or other methods that are not walking – most of them are horizontal transport – is that the archaeologists engaging in that completely overlooked or ignored the archaeological evidence on the statues. Aspects of their form, like the fact that they lean forward and have a low centre of gravity; the way that they’re found on the roads; the positions they’re found going uphill and downhill; the way that they’re broken; the way that some of them are buried…All of these things point to vertical transport, and if you are rolling them on logs, you’re ignoring all of that evidence.” Read more...

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Terry Hunt, Historian