Post #190638 by Palama Tiki on Tue, Oct 4, 2005 12:01 PM

the pukao that have been replaced on the ahu statues have been placed by using a crane. Islanders did raise a Moai into place using the rope method (as seen in Hanford's photo post), but that process also left gouges in the statues from the ropes... Gouges that are not visible in the existing moai, therefore casting potential doubt on that as the actual method of raising the Moai.