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Carl Lipo

Carl Lipo
Robert J. Freligh, California State University Long Beach

Carl Lipo

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The Statues that Walked will be released on June 21, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 21, 2011
The Statues that Walked is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 21, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Statues that Walked
Jun 16, 2011

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National Geographic, June 13, 2012
...as 11 miles has been one of the island's persistent mysteries. Last year, archaeologists Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, supported by a National Geographic grant, demonstrated how the statues could have been "walked" in to place by as few as 18 people....
About, January 14, 2013
...the first one that convinced me of the possible truth of an old legend. Researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo demonstrate how an Easter Island moai might have been moved, in this still from the Mystery of Easter Island. Ben Krueger/National Geographic...
EGlobal Travel Media, December 23, 2012
...as to how all 887 statues go there. University of Hawai‘i archaeologist Terry Hunt and his colleague Carl Lipo took to the ranch to test the theory that people could “walk” the statues using ropes. See how Polynesian’s of the past might...
Canada Free Press, November 19, 2012
...a very different story. Rats played a prominent role in the deforestation of Easter Island. Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo suggest that the last tree did not fall because of an ax, but to a feeding frenzy of Pacific rats. The rats proliferated in a...
Hawaii 24/7, November 12, 2012
...discusses The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, a book he co-authored with fellow archeologist Carl Lipo. In this presentation, Dr. Hunt outlines the evidence for the island’s astonishing prehistoric success, and explores...
Belmont Shore-Naples Patch, October 12, 2012
...The enigmatic moai statues of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have long intrigued explorers and researchers including anthropology Professor Carl Lipo of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Lipo and research colleague Terry Hunt, an anthropology...
InlandSoCal.com, October 2, 2012
...known as moai, were "engineered to move" upright in a rocking motion, using only man- power and rope. Carl Lipo of California State University, Long Beach and Terry Hunt of the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa have worked closely with archaeologist...
FORA.tv, August 24, 2012
...2aa8 Easter Island archaeologists Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo offer a radically different theory of the island's history, and theorize how the statues walked...