Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board

University of Manchester ^ | May 12, 2010 | Unknown

[fanfan]

Canals?

Could that explain why the “roads” were concave?

Edgar Cayce said the ancients knew how to make rock float....

[afraidfortherepublic]

I was just going to post the better video. THanks for posting the link. Wallington has an interesting method.

[arthurus]

Then there is this guy in Michigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1Rzch89Dw

Watch this and then wonder what is all the “mystery?”

[Paladin2]

Mud can be slippery.

[arthurus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1Rzch89Dw

This guy thinks he knows.

[Tammy8]

Another mystery- how did this man move these large stones?

http://coralcastle.com/

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon and fanfan. Gosh, I'll bet their next discovery will be that the statues *didn't* have a ceremonial function, but were erected to hold up the roof that used to cover the entire island. ;') As soon as these "researchers" cut one out of the quarry with stone tools, roll it across the landscape, and put it on its base, without the use of machinery, they'll have something significant to contribute to whether or not the roads were used for moving them. Until then, they really need to shut up. IMHO of course. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[LastNorwegian]

That’s just brilliant :)
And so simple...
Someone should tell Däniken ;)

Wouldn’t work for obelisks I suppose, but our ancestors were no DUmmies.

[The Wizard]

get this: the natives say they walked to where they are.......

[Fred Nerks]

Easter Island statue lying beside 'road' - were the statues easier to move along a deliberately rock-scattered surface?

[blam]

[ASOC]

Some other ideas here

[blam]

"get this: the natives say they walked to where they are......."

Things were different in their day. (Visualize...they could see stars all the way down to the water line on the horizon.)

[Ladycalif]

But you said it so well.

[bigheadfred]

they really need to shut up

But, But, But, it's not like anything was carved in stone...

[Miss Marple]

"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 believe 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.

Agree. I had the same thought as I read that.

Of course, we don't get a professional publication for our theories.

[Fred Nerks]

Mapping prehistoric statue roads
on Easter Island

http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo/papers/LipoAndHunt-2005.pdf

with maps and photographs

[ThanhPhero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1Rzch89Dw

This guy thinks he knows.

[ApplegateRanch]

the statues *didn't* have a ceremonial function, but were erected to hold up the roof that used to cover the entire island. ;')

Ugliest caryatids, EVER!

[ApplegateRanch]

Oh, come on!

You just keep digging sand and piling it under rear end, so that it’s always sliding downhill under its own weight, until you get it where it’s going.

Getting it uphill is a bit trickier....

*<];-’)