Easter Island Statues

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Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the statues got to where they are. one is that they rolled the statues on sledges, which they made out of trees and the other is that they walked the statues by using ropes. i believe that they walked the statues, it was the only possible way. …show more content…
Lastly walking the statues was faster. This method was faster cause the rapanui didn't need to spend time building the sledge and rollers. In addition it took less people thus it was faster because they needed less people to work.Finally the people got to their destination fast by walking the statues and could cover more distance.

Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the statues got to where they are. one is that they rolled the statues on sledges, which they made out of trees and the other is that they walked the statues by using ropes. i believe that they walked the statues, it was the only possible way. using this... (only first 800 chars
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