Posted on 06/19/2018 10:54:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Carved from sharp volcanic rock and more than 700 years old, the stone formations can weigh upwards of 13 tons. Archaeologists have long wondered how these stone hats, which sit atop the heads of the famous Easter Island statues, were put into place with 13th-century technology...
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, rises from the waves about 2,000 miles from Chile. The island's famous statues have been studied by various teams of archaeologists and geologists since the 18th century. Previous studies determined that the statues are made of from one quarry on the island, while the hats come from a different quarry, seven miles away on the other side of the island...
"The best explanation for the transport of the pukao [hats] from the quarry is by rolling the raw material to the location of the moai [statues]," Carl P. Lipo, professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, said in a statement. "Once at the moai, the pukao were rolled up large ramps to the top of a standing statue using a parbuckling technique."
Parbuckling is an ancient and efficient technique for rolling cylindrical objects. The center of a long rope is fixed to the top of a ramp and the two trailing ends are wrapped around the cylinder to be moved. Workers atop the ramp then pull on the ropes to slowly roll the cylinder up.
The Easter Island technique likely involved a couple of extra steps, according to the research team. Once on top of the ramp, which was built adjacent to the statue, the hat was slowly rotated and tipped into place using wooden levers. The hat was also most likely modified before, during, and after the tipping process.
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Economic stimulus program for shovel-ready projects. Unfortunately, the ancient Easter Islanders went bankrupt and became extinct.
Well, a dude’s gotta’ have a brim, right?
They made Statues before they ran out of Food and started eating each other ,I think eating Fish was against their Religion ,D’oh
Who doesn’t love a good mystery?
Strange how ordinary people created extraordinary monuments etc., from what was available in nature and yet ‘scientists’ seem unable to make the simple connection/solution.
All humans have the ability to solve problems. Look it up;)
Looks like the waiting line at the keg at my family reunion.
The tall guy is Uncle Ed.
It took a lot of trees to build those stones.
Rats and whites did those folks in. If only they would have had some liberal politicians to teach them how to save themselves from themselves.....
Wookbuckle
That was the technique employed recently to upright the Costa Concordia during salvage operations.
[[They made Statues before they ran out of Food and started eating each other]]
“Easter Island Job opportunity- plenty of fresh air in a lovely environment, lots of leisure time, and all you can eat buffets Daily. Remember, if it tastes like chicken, then that’s what it is... most likely... Except in extre... oh never mind, it’s chicken”
No fava beans and Chianti to go with the liver? Tsk. Tsk
Quit reading at Researchers.
"How large returns of conjecture, on such small investment in fact..." Mark Twain
3D modeling is not archaeological evidence. Is this guy referring to the site materials? Would like to see what he refers to. I would assume a tall ramp that could handle a 13 ton rock would be quite long and very sturdy. So what did they do with all that rock? are there signs of it still?
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