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Researchers Demonstrate How Easter Island Statues Could "Walk"

National Geographic · Demo · 1 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
Why it's here

Cited as evidence of how ancient people could move huge stones with only ropes and simple methods.

What it covers

A one-minute National Geographic clip of researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo testing a theory that Easter Islanders used ropes to rock the moai statues upright to walk them to their platforms.