Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/science/archaeology-easter-island-rapa-nui.html

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Related: Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012) (55 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17536958

This paper The walking moai hypothesis: Archaeological evidence, experimental validation, and response to critics (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054...) is from the same two interviewed in that piece.