If you've seen pictures of Easter Island, you've seen pictures of the moai, the big stone heads that are all around the island. If you don't know what they were used for, this article explains them.
One of the big moai questions was how the islanders, using stone and rope, moved the heads from the quarry to the platform they were mounted on. That's the recent subject of the article and video below.
Moai in the quarry
How Easter Island's famed heads 'walked'
What I don't know, and would like to know, is who paid the people to move them, whether in food or some kind of currency. It's hard to me to imagine getting a group together voluntarily for the sole purpose of moving giant head statues. But religion causes people to do some very unusual things occasionally.
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