Those big statue heads on Easter Island? They may have been “walked” into position, not rolled on logs as originally believed… “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.”

Those big statue heads on Easter Island? They may have been “walked” into position, not rolled on logs as originally believed…

“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.”

Source: news.discovery.com

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