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simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago

They actually ‘walked’ them like you do when moving a refridgerator.

win said, 4 months ago

@simpsonfan2

That’s one way to get ahead.

Brian K said, 4 months ago

Caution, a head

Prof danglais said, 4 months ago

I’d understood that they’d discovered that many of the heads actually had bodies, under the ground.

KasparV said, 4 months ago

@simpsonfan2

So you were there and witnessed this, eh?

KA7DRE said, 4 months ago

That Moai must be asleep, I don’t see his eyes.

Alexikakos said, 4 months ago

@Prof danglais

“I’d understood that they’d discovered that many of the heads actually had bodies, under the ground.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From: msnbc.com
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Mysterious Easter Island Heads Have Bodies Too
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XgGUxGR14
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3 minutes 14 seconds

hawgowar said, 4 months ago

@KasparV; There was a Discovery special about it. Legends said the statues “walked”. They made one from concrete and found out how to walk it into place by rocking it with ropes. Once they got started, it was fairly easy to keep it going at a pretty good clip, considering.

" In a piece of experimental archaeology, a team of local and U.S. researchers showed that the massive statues, known as moai, can be moved from side to side by a small number of people, just as one might move a fridge.

“We constructed a precise three-dimensional 4.35 metric ton replica of an actual statue and demonstrated how positioning the center of mass allowed it to fall forward and rock from side to side causing it to ‘walk,’” Carl Lipo, an archaeologist at California State University, Long Beach, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Archaeological Science."

http://news.discovery.com/history/easter-island-statues-walked-121025.html