Moai: 15-foot, 12-ton concrete replica with a slightly convex base Method: Interested in legendary lore that the moai walked, Pavel Pavel based his theory on the assumption that an upright moai ...

5-ton moai replica a few hundred yards. In real life, walking miles with much larger moai would have been a tense business. Dozens of fallen statues line the roads leading away from the quarry.

The replica moai, made from a mixture of concrete and red scoria, weighs 10 tons and is 14 feet high. We will pretend that the moai came from the top of the quarry, above a cliff that drops down ...