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Easter Island Moai

FILE DATE 1250
CROSS-REFS 03
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
The heads have bodies, buried deep. The islanders say the statues walked.
FULL DOSSIER
Rapa Nui's moai (c. 1250-1500 CE) number nearly a thousand; many torsos are buried, making the 'heads' framing misleading. Experiments (Lipo/Hunt 2012) showed statues can be 'walked' upright with ropes — matching the islanders' own tradition that the moai walked. The ecological-collapse story is now contested too. Links to Mu (early diffusionist speculation) and the megalith-transport problem cluster.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Lipo & Hunt, 'The Statues That Walked' (2011)
02moai excavation records (EISP)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
MUANCIENT ASTRONAUTSNAN MADOL
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