My understanding is that there is at least some oral record of clan violence and/or toppling of the Moai, but perhaps I'm way off on that. The museum on the isl

My understanding is that there is at least some oral record of clan violence and/or toppling of the Moai, but perhaps I'm way off on that. The museum on the island certainly presented it that way. But I'm no anthropologist. As far as being broken at the nose, that doesn't make a ton of sense to me, given that most of the Moai have broken necks, which wouldn't have occurred if they were lowered slowly. And the break pattern on all of them is similar to the ones that were broken in transit. The platforms that they would have fallen on to are made of stones and grass so there's no reason to assume that the noses would break. But again, I'm only reporting on what I saw and what people told me when I was there. I'm sure there are all sorts of plausible explanations.