Well I'll just be darned. Look at that! Thanks for posting!
Somebody posted that if they had been buried up to their lips, nobody would have bothered to see if that was all there was to them. LOL
Posted on 05/14/2012 12:31:31 AM PDT by bkopto
The head statuary of Easter Island is instantly recognizable to people all over the world, but who would have guessed that, lurking beneath the soil, these famous mugs also had bodies?
The Easter Island Statue Project Conservation Initiative, which is funded by the Archaeological Institute of America, has been excavating two of the enormous figures for the last several years, and have found unique petroglyphs carved on their backs that had been conserved in the soil. Their research has also yielded evidence of how the carvers were paid with food such as tuna and lobster, as well as clues to how the enormous structures were transported.
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Well I'll just be darned. Look at that! Thanks for posting!
Somebody posted that if they had been buried up to their lips, nobody would have bothered to see if that was all there was to them. LOL
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Thor Heyardahl visited the place back in the fifties.
Sheesh! Only now are they excavating?
-PJ
The original tramp stamp!
Which will also lead to the mysterious demise of the U.S. of A. as well!
Has Zahi Hawass locked down the site yet?
I have heard that the island’s inhabitants declined to extinction because the ocean currents isolated them and the island became depleted of food sources. It occurred to me that the towering monoliths were a practical way of signaling from a greater distance the islands presence to wayfarers. At some point, there was no one who would make the journey successfully. The statues would, over time, be ‘buried’ more deeply in sedimentary deposits, exposing only the uppermost part.
Yes. And, of course, this proves the Egyptians weren't slaves.
Is this for real? Funny... I saw one of these heads at the British Museum a few years back. What, did they unwittingly(?) decapitate the poor soul in order to remove him from the island? Archaeology, FUBAR? lol
LOL!
Just shows we don’t know 1% of what we think we know.
Actually it should read we don’t know 99% of what we think we know, or, we only know 1% of what we think we know!
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I guess that would have been the first place I would have looked for the bodies... right below the heads.
Again.
One of the pics that is usually shown is that of the main ahu that has been restored. There are 15 moai all in a line. It had been toppled and swept inland years later by a tsunami. If you see the picture all of the moai have bodies down to their hips.
I don't recall if that is the one where the moai face the sea. I don't believe they do. Most moai face inland NOT toward the sea but at least one does face the sea.
Another little known fact is that many moai are still in the quarry where they were hewn from relatively soft volcanic rock. They never made it to the final destination!
Amazing
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