Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 21:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. New fieldwork has shown the remote Pacific island's ancient road system was primarily ceremonial and not solely built for transportation of the figures.

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