[decimon]

Easter bunnies ping.

[beebuster2000]

what alternative is there to moving on a road? none i would think.

[Tarpon]

humans are very resourceful

[IYAS9YAS]

"They lead – from different parts of the island – to the Rano Raraku volcano where the Moai were quarried.

and

And as the roads approach Rano Raraku, the statues become more frequent – which the team say, indicated an increasing grades of holiness.

Leads this non archeologist to beleive that you find more statues near the quarry cuz they were big, heavy s.o.b.s that took a lot to move, not because the site was more holy.

[JoeProBono]

[Telepathic Intruder]

I saw this documentary where a team of archeologists tried to raise a small Egyptian-type obelisk using only contemporary equipment. When that failed, they used modern pulleys. When that failed, they had to admit their theories were wrong. What am I saying? I don’t know.

[Beowulf9]

‘the roads were concave in shape making it difficult to move heavy objects along them’

making me believe the heavy objects pushed down the road made the road concave.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Yet another example of why nobody should ever take these types of “scientific theories” seriously.

[Sequoyah101]

Sounds highly academic to me. Professors pimping for dollars. Studying meaningless minutiae.

[oremites]

Couldn't the roads have been used to moved the statues and be ceremonial roads? I'm not sure why one excludes the other.

[JoeFromSidney]

then of course there's the story, I believe it was by Robert Heinlein, that the statues were election campaign material, to be levitated by a magician, who got drunk and botched the job.

[Tammy8]

Another mystery- how did this man move these large stones?

http://coralcastle.com/

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon and fanfan. Gosh, I'll bet their next discovery will be that the statues *didn't* have a ceremonial function, but were erected to hold up the roof that used to cover the entire island. ;') As soon as these "researchers" cut one out of the quarry with stone tools, roll it across the landscape, and put it on its base, without the use of machinery, they'll have something significant to contribute to whether or not the roads were used for moving them. Until then, they really need to shut up. IMHO of course. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[The Wizard]

get this: the natives say they walked to where they are.......

[curmudgeonII]

"The truth of the matter is, we will never know how the statues were moved," said Dr Richards.

A small dog and big whips?

[MrNeutron1962]

Has anybody asked Hellen Thomas, she was around back then.

[wxgesr]

Surfers gods on Rapanui!!! Maybe they are magnetic and used to push each others polar opposites.

[Starstruck]

Here you are living on a tropical island and decide to spend your lives moving heavy rocks around. Real smart.