# Van Tilburg 2005: Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island

> Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ted Ralston, 2005. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The main experimental case for horizontal transport.

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# Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ted Ralston, 2005. _In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306_.

The Easter Island Statue Project's transport experiment, filmed for NOVA: rollers jammed, so a sledge sliding on a canoe-ladder track was used, and 40 people pulled a 10-tonne replica lying down.

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The main experimental case for horizontal transport.

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Van Tilburg, J. A., & Ralston, T. (2005). Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island. In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306. https://www.eisp.org/544/
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