[SunkenCiv]

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[cripplecreek]

Seems like the hard way to me but I don’t know what they were thinking.

[moose07]

weighing as much as 90 tons

How did they lower these statues into the mounting holes, if vertical transportation was used?
Raising and lowering the statue is relatively easy, but vertical transport over that terrain...

[Fred Nerks]

BRADSHAW FOUNDATION - SENTINELS IN STONE:

"...Ropes were also used to move the Moai statues to the platforms. For this to work, the hauling ropes would have had to have been about 250 feet long, which at an inch thick would have weighed over a ton. Many people required to make the rope, many people required to pull. Some Moai were erected up to 15 miles from the quarry, and until recently it was assumed they would have been hauled along on wooden rollers. However, latest research by Professor Charles Love who has been excavating the moai roads, shows that rollers would not have worked because the road beds themselves were not level, but slightly concave. How they moved the Moai statues is still one of the great mysteries of Easter Island. Whatever means were employed, once a statue arrived at its intended ahu, it had to be levered upright. Then the red crowns, some weighing up to 11 tons, could be placed on top...

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AND NOT ONLY were the roads CONCAVE as shown in the image above, they were partially paved with rocks, which would suggest the statues were moved lying on their backas...

Thor Heyerdahl Forever. AKU AKU!