A new article from National Geographic apparently solved the question about how the statues where moved from to querry to its present location but check first Andromedans opinion (NG's take below image):
"Mythi, Thomas asks, the statues of Easter Island have never been explained, can you tell us something about it?
- Thomas, according to records, this island was a base for meetings between people from Atlantis from Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Lemurian inhabitants a civilization of an ancient region near the coast of India, which was
devastated by tectonic movements at almost 18,000 years ago. These statues were demarked territories and boundaries of stellar positions. Leaders of old pre-Inca civilizations of South America (e.g.Tihuanacu) were also taken to these meetings as guests. In each meeting, a new statue was taken by one of the spacecraft and placed at the corresponding location, through anti-gravity techniques (similar to Stonehenge). The records that were made in the rocks are ancient references of the participants and guests of these meetings." (video 72. Link to video transcripts please check below)"
(...)"It’s called The Statues That Walked, and the Rapanui enjoy better spin in it than they do in Collapse. Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent conflict among the Rapanui; sharp obsidian flakes that other archaeologists see as weapons, they see as farm tools. The moai helped keep the peace, they argue, not only by signaling the power of their builders but also by limiting population growth: People raised statues rather than children. What’s more, moving the moai required few people and no wood, because they were walked upright. On that issue, Hunt and Lipo say, evidence supports the folklore.
Sergio Rapu, 63, a Rapanui archaeologist and former Easter Island governor who did graduate work with Hunt, took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s southeastern volcano. Looking at the many moai abandoned there in various stages of completion, Rapu explained how they were engineered to walk: Fat bellies tilted them forward, and a D-shaped base allowed handlers to roll and rock them side to side. Last year,in experiments funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, Hunt and Lipo showed that as few as 18 people could, with three strong ropes and a bit of practice, easily maneuver a 10-foot, 5-ton moai replica a few hundred yards. In real life, walking miles with much larger moai would have been a tense business. Dozens of fallen statues line the roads leading away from the quarry. But many more made it to their platforms intact.
No one knows for sure when the last statue was carved. The moai cannot be dated directly. Many were still standing when the Dutch arrived in 1722, and Rapanui civilization was peaceful and thriving then, Hunt and Lipo argue. But the explorers introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity, along with artifacts that replaced the moai as status symbols. Snatching Europeans’ hats—Hunt and Lipo cite many reports of this—became more appealing than hoisting a multiton red pukao onto a moai. In the 19th century slave traders decimated the population, which shriveled to 111 people by 1877."(...)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/easter-island/bloch-text
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