Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board

University of Manchester ^ | May 12, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Easter bunnies ping.

[beebuster2000]

what alternative is there to moving on a road? none i would think.

[Tarpon]

humans are very resourceful

[GeronL]

lol.

If the roads weren’t used for the statues, then they were only used for trucks?

[Paladin2]

what alternative is there to moving on a road?

Canals, helicopters, cross country.

[IYAS9YAS]

"They lead – from different parts of the island – to the Rano Raraku volcano where the Moai were quarried.

and

And as the roads approach Rano Raraku, the statues become more frequent – which the team say, indicated an increasing grades of holiness.

Leads this non archeologist to beleive that you find more statues near the quarry cuz they were big, heavy s.o.b.s that took a lot to move, not because the site was more holy.

[JoeProBono]

[fieldmarshaldj]

[fieldmarshaldj]

I watched that movie repeatedly just for Sandrine Holt. ;-D

[Telepathic Intruder]

I saw this documentary where a team of archeologists tried to raise a small Egyptian-type obelisk using only contemporary equipment. When that failed, they used modern pulleys. When that failed, they had to admit their theories were wrong. What am I saying? I don’t know.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.celebtna.com/pictures/Sandrine_Holt-76777.jpg

[SengirV]

If they were tossed haphazardly, yes. If they all have the same orientation(facing people on the road, facing a common location, etc...), perhaps not.

[bleach]

I’d hit it.

[StormEye]

"I saw this documentary where a team of archeologists tried to raise a small Egyptian-type obelisk using only contemporary equipment. When that failed, they used modern pulleys. When that failed, they had to admit their theories were wrong. What am I saying? I don’t know."

I think I know what you're trying to say, so allow me put it in to words:
"The so-called 'experts' don't have a freaking clue how these giant obelisks and boulders were moved." And I don't either.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I love Asian/Eurasian women...

[Beowulf9]

‘the roads were concave in shape making it difficult to move heavy objects along them’

making me believe the heavy objects pushed down the road made the road concave.

[frithguild]

what alternative is there to moving on a road?

levitation

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Yet another example of why nobody should ever take these types of “scientific theories” seriously.

[Sequoyah101]

Sounds highly academic to me. Professors pimping for dollars. Studying meaningless minutiae.