{"id":876309,"date":"2025-10-08T22:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/new-research-confirms-walking-moai-hypothesis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:25:46","slug":"new-research-confirms-walking-moai-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/new-research-confirms-walking-moai-hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Confirms \u2018Walking\u2019 Moai Hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Binghamton University Professor Carl Lipo and University of Arizona\u2019s Dr. Terry Hunt demonstrated that small groups of the ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used rope and \u2018walked\u2019 the giant statues in a zig-zag motion along carefully designed roads.<br \/>\nThe post New Research Confirms \u2018Walking\u2019 Moai Hypothesis appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/archaeology\/walking-moai-hypothesis-14269.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Binghamton University Professor Carl Lipo and University of Arizona\u2019s Dr. Terry Hunt demonstrated that small groups of the ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used rope and \u2018walked\u2019 the giant statues in a zig-zag motion along carefully designed roads. The post New Research Confirms \u2018Walking\u2019 Moai Hypothesis appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2548,3801,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-confirms","8":"category-research","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}