Talk:Rapa Nui National Park

A fact from Rapa Nui National Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Rapa Nui National Park is home to dozens of moai statues (pictured) attributed to the Rapa Nui people who inhabited Easter Island around AD 300?

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Was the wood really used to transport the moai?[edit]

Currently, in the article there stands

> The wood of the now extinct Jubaea palm was used to make devices for transporting the huge stone moai statues.

This is an older theory, which also has some problems. Currently, there are theories that the moai were transorted upright by rocking them from side to side with ropes and thus "walking" them, which also explains the pattern how the moai on the transport road are lying. (e.g. http://iteroni.com/watch?v=7j08gxUcBgc, https://www.wired.com/2012/10/easter-island-moai/)