Easter Islanders Used Rope and Ramps to Put Giant Hats on Statues

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Easter Islanders Used Rope and Ramps to Put Giant Hats on Statues

Posted on June 4, 2018


Some of the Easter Island statues have enormous red stone hats known as pukao. The Pukao are cylinders made of red scoria. They can weigh up to 12 metric tons. Researchers from Binghamton University in New York say the ancient people of Easter Island used a parbuckling technique involving ramps and rope to get the hats on top of the statues.
Carl Lipo, a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, says, "Of the many questions that surround the island's past, two tend to stand out: How did people of the past move such massive statues (moai) and how did they place such massive stone hats (pukao) on top of their heads?"

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