Bodies of Easter Island’s famous heads revealed

AllTop ^ | 5/12/2012 | staff

[Dick Vomer]

What is WITH This guy and his hair? HE also pronounces the T in “often.”

[China Clipper]

"Hey! Someone shut the door!! I'm not finished yet!!!" Can't a giant stone guy get a little privacy!

[patriot08]

LOL

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Thor Heyardahl visited the place back in the fifties. ****

He also uncovered some of the stone bodies. This is not new. Photos in his book AKU-AKU clearly shows some that he excavated showing their were bodies under the heads.

[JRios1968]

[Last of the Mohicans]

They have eyes too.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I thought they had been found nearly all knocked over, and had been righted.***

I believe those were the half statues sitting on a long rock platform. They had been thrown face down, then over the years beginning with Thor Heyardahl, a few of them have been set back up.

[MortMan]

Infinity tramp stamp and all!

[Tijeras_Slim]

"I've got a fine horse under me."

[blam]

"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."

They chopped down all the trees. There wasn't any wood to make canoes to leave.

I wonder what the guy who chopped down the last tree was thinking?

[eartrumpet]

“I wonder what the guy who chopped down the last tree was thinking? “

Finally! Now maybe I can get that foreman job on the ropes detail.

[Baynative]

[Oatka]

The articles discussed the inscriptions on the Moais' backs and compared them to the mysterious wooden "written" tablets found in seaside caves.

A theory comparing the Easter Island scrip to that of the Indus Valley at

Seems a bit of a stretch.

[ApplegateRanch]

Apropos of nothing, anyone else ever read Thor Heyerdahl's "Aku-Aku"?

Read Aku-Aku soon after it came out, having already read Kon-Tiki.

Also read Barry Fell & his Easter Island script decipherment/translation work.

Speaking of Apropos, I'm wondering if Peter David will ever write another novel in the adventures of Sir Apropos of Nothing.

My mind withers as it wonderingly wanders: the Summer Heat tends to do that to me, as I take a gander at my Garden of Earthy Delights that are so delicious and delovely...Dinah, Come; Blow My Levee-Chevy's Horn!

[ApplegateRanch]

Seems a bit of a stretch.

Libra was originally "the claws of the scorpion', rather than a separate constellation.

It was later split off from Scorpio by the Romans, and given separate status, even though it is made up of third magnitude & dimmer stars.

That should be enough to stretch the theory out of shape.

[thulldud]

Libra was originally "the claws of the scorpion', rather than a separate constellation.

Which is where you get a name like Zuben Elgenubi....

[dfwgator]

“What’s in the road a head?”

[zeugma]

My brain just exploded.

Again.

Yeah, me too. You get used to it eventually.

[Billthedrill]

There wasn't any wood to make canoes to leave.

Sure, but there was probably a smart guy like me there to tell them that you can carve them out of stone. We get the fleet ready, everybody goes to sea and...uh...well, you paddle a ways...uh...hmm. Maybe that's where everybody went.

I need a grant.

[blam]

"I need a grant."

We are accepting grant applications only from Blacks and unemployed PhD's.

Which are you?