Stonhenge revisited

[sstrait1 at san.rr.com]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:53:01PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:41:47PM -0800, Mike Marion wrote:
> > Quoting Neil Schneider <pacneil at linuxgeek.net>:
> > 
> > > demonstrated moving very large stones with this method. He also plans
> > > to  try a demonstraton near stonehenge to move a stone of approximate
> > > size to the megoliths a large distance in a single day, something like
> > > a half mile.
> > 
> > That sounds a lot like a show I saw where they tried to prove how the Easter
> > Island heads were created and moved.  They made a head, then used trees
> > (which they had to bring in from elsewhere as there are no trees on the
> > island[*]) and used them to move the head.  Standing it up was the hardest
> > part.
> > 
> > [*] They actually had a theory that the creation of the heads is why there
> > were no trees left on the island, and that it lead to the end of the creation
> > of the heads.
> 
> Economists actually use Easter Island as an example of what happens when
> a culture cashes in all its natural resource chips in one generation.
> 
> Kinda like us ...

I read somewhere that when someone finally thought of asking an
Easter Islander how the heads were moved, the islander described
some reasonable-sounding method and said the method had been
passed on from one generation to the next.  Unfortunately I don't
remember which method he described.

Stewart Strait