Moai Statues Research Paper

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Moai Statues I believe that the Moai statues were rolled in stead of walked. I say this because one they did have enough people to roll the statues. Two they could have cut down trees to roll the statues on. Lastly if they used the walking method for the statues, the statues could have been destroyed. Now I will go into my first reason which is they used trees. In the article it states that they cut down alot of trees to roll the statues on. I believe that they can use the same word over and over again to keep rolling the statues on. Also it was tested ''the rolling method'' of the statues and it only took 70 people to move it 320 feet. My next reason i will go on to is the people they had on the island. They had a population of over 10,000

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