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Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
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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.
Cited as evidence of how ancient people could move huge stones with only ropes and simple methods.
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