Archaeology & History
Easter Island statue transport mystery deepens
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T.K. RandallMay 15, 2010 ·
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The method believed to be used by the inhabitants of Easter Island to move their statues has been called in to question.
Up until now it has been widely believed that the inhabitants used a network of roads to transport the enormous stone head statues around the island however new research by archeologists has now suggested that the roads were purely ceremonial and would not have made for a practical transportation system.
British archeologists are rejecting a 50-year-old theory of how Easter Island's famous stone statues were moved around the island. Easter Island — a special territory of Chile in the South Pacific — is famous for its hundreds of moai, or statues representing deceased ancestors, built by the early Polynesian inhabitants.
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CBC News |
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