The statues never really struck me as being of elder ladies...
Posted on 09/06/2009 10:54:18 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
Pukao outside the crater.
Placing the headdresses on top of the statues’ heads was a tremendous feat of engineering. Those to be seen today on restored statues were all put there by cranes (fig. 5.11), and not without difficulty. Captain Cook suggested that ramps and scaffolding were used. Some scholars have proposed that the cylinders were lashed to the statues and both were raised together, but this is generally considered to be far too risky.
Experiments by Pavel Pavel show that some pukao may have been put in position by gradually pulling them up sloping beams of wood. A concrete pukao, 1 m in diameter and weighing 900 kg, was raised onto the top of a 3 m concrete moai by only 4 men in 6 hours (fig. 5.12).2
It should be borne in mind, however, that Paro’s monstrous pukao, which was by no means the biggest, measures almost 2 m across, 1.7 m high, weighs about 11.5 tons, and had to be raised 10 meters into the air.
Remember, they were a pre-tinfoil technology culture.
This was their attempt to keep alien space beams out of their statues heads.
If the researchers had a tough time figuring out how they got the red hats on, wait til works starts on the jimmy hats question!
Some chief woke up and said, “I had a dream...”, and then ordered his peons to stop farming and start making hats for the statues.
Probably believed it would stop global warming.
Then the statues have not given up the mystery.
Is that guy still on
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