article_snippet.sent: The mysterious Moai statues of Easter Island have gazed inland for hundreds of years.
article_snippet.sent: Despite the size of The mysterious Moai statues of Easter Island, Sean Hixon an undergraduate student in archaeology and geology at the University of Oregon, believes the rolling of the bulky stones would have been relatively easy.
article_snippet.sent: Some 1,000 carved Moai line the perimeter of the 12 mile (25km) volcanic island, which is the most isolated inhabited landmass on Earth with just 6,000 residents.
article_snippet.sent: The Moai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, between 1,250 and 1,500 AD.
article_snippet.sent: In 1979 archaeologists said The 887 statues were designed to hold coral eyes.
article_snippet.sent: It is not known exactly how the vast Easter Island statues came to line the perimeter of the small island.
article_snippet.sent: A team led by Archaeologists Carl Lipo from the University of California State University Long Beach, and Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii claimed the vast Easter Island statues bases were carved so A team led by Archaeologists Carl Lipo from the University of California State University Long Beach, and Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii could lean forward to make A team led by Archaeologists Carl Lipo from the University of California State University Long Beach, and Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii easier to transport.
article_snippet.sent: : A team of experts created a five-tonne replica of one of the vast Easter Island statues and moved a five-tonne replica of one of the statues into an upright position on a dirt path in Hawaii, to prove that the vast Easter Island statues could have been 'walked' into place .
article_snippet.sent: The researchers illustrated the theory by creating a five-tonne replica of one of the vast Easter Island statues and moving the theory into an upright position on a dirt path in Hawaii.
article_snippet.sent: the statues' bases would then have been flattened to stand the vast Easter Island statues upright once the statues' bases reached position.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lipo said the findings may help dismantle the traditional story line of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, that a 'crazed maniacal group destroyed a 'crazed maniacal group environment,' by cutting down trees to transport gigantic statues.
article_snippet.sent: Previous studies have suggested that a lost civilization chopped down trees on the island, laid the vast Easter Island statues prone and rolled the vast Easter Island statues into place using logs.