The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo's 2011 study from Free Press, argues against the older narrative of ecological self destruction on Rapa Nui and proposes that the moai were moved upright by walking rather than felled and dragged. Its strength is that it is a full length scholarly study by archaeologists who conducted their own fieldwork on the island. Its limit is that its central claims, especially the ecological revisionism, remain contested by other Rapa Nui specialists, whose competing accounts should also be checked.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a full length scholarly study by archaeologists who conducted their own fieldwork, though its central claims remain contested by other specialists in the field. NotesScholarly study reinterpreting the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island, Free Press, 2011.
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AuthorTerry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo
PublisherFree Press
Publication Year2011
Source TypeScholarly work
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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