
Rapa Nui’s island mysteries
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Are the Statues Like Stonehenge?
How the statues were moved has been the greatest mystery, a bit like stone hens. But in terms of rapenery and those statues, we now pretty much know that they were actually walked. They warlked themselves down the hill which sounds ustratee was putting it. And this is very effective. You don't need a rollers anything like that. The statues can then move down the hill. Then have another process where they refinish them at the end, so they can stand on these platforms. Some of them have a hat that's put on top of their heads afterwards. Ta swell, which, again, we've got some evidence being used ad ramps to roll them up
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