Posted on 06/19/2018 10:54:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Carved from sharp volcanic rock and more than 700 years old, the stone formations can weigh upwards of 13 tons. Archaeologists have long wondered how these stone hats, which sit atop the heads of the famous Easter Island statues, were put into place with 13th-century technology...
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, rises from the waves about 2,000 miles from Chile. The island's famous statues have been studied by various teams of archaeologists and geologists since the 18th century. Previous studies determined that the statues are made of from one quarry on the island, while the hats come from a different quarry, seven miles away on the other side of the island...
"The best explanation for the transport of the pukao [hats] from the quarry is by rolling the raw material to the location of the moai [statues]," Carl P. Lipo, professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, said in a statement. "Once at the moai, the pukao were rolled up large ramps to the top of a standing statue using a parbuckling technique."
Parbuckling is an ancient and efficient technique for rolling cylindrical objects. The center of a long rope is fixed to the top of a ramp and the two trailing ends are wrapped around the cylinder to be moved. Workers atop the ramp then pull on the ropes to slowly roll the cylinder up.
The Easter Island technique likely involved a couple of extra steps, according to the research team. Once on top of the ramp, which was built adjacent to the statue, the hat was slowly rotated and tipped into place using wooden levers. The hat was also most likely modified before, during, and after the tipping process.
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Parbuckling is an ancient and efficient technique for rolling cylindrical objects. The center of a long rope is fixed to the top of a ramp and the two trailing ends are wrapped around the cylinder to be moved.
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Now they should research the technology of the ropes.
Ah, thank you
I spend too much time on the Internet. This came out weeks ago.
Finally: proof that ancient astronauts used parbuckling!
It took a lot of stones to get the job done
No. They did eat fish. They used the trees to make large rafts to go deep sea fishing. And they used trees to roll the statues around on the ground. Eventually, they had chopped down all of the trees and could no longer go deep sea fishing. Their economy collasped. When the white men arrived the natives were already close to starvation and were fighting amounst themselves. Reminder for the future. Always re-plant trees after the harvest of mature trees. Keep making more trees. Replinish the resource.
It is rayciss of you to enforce your white, Eurocentric values on those peace loving cannibals.
As an aide, I am currently trying to make an Easter Island head out of Legos for my kid. It is not as easy as I thought.
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Posted on 06/19/2018 9:20:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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