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Walking with Giants: How did huge stone moai move across Rapa Nui?

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walking moai illustration from national geographicHow do you move a 14-ton stone monolith over miles of rough island terrain? How do you move 900 of them, some weighing as much as 82 tons? For generations, archaeologists and anthropologists have asked these questions about Rapa Nui‘s giant moai (statues), carved with toki (chisels) and erected by...

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