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Easter Island mystery is SOLVED: Scientists finally pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads 900 years ago
UK Daily Mail ^ | 26 November 2025 | William Hunter

Posted on 11/27/2025 2:58:31 AM PST by Moltke

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Just a bunch of guys having some beers and a competition then.
1 posted on 11/27/2025 2:58:31 AM PST by Moltke
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping* Your wheelhouse.


2 posted on 11/27/2025 2:59:43 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

It was that guy… Fred, Fred Head.

Had a massive cranium… “ like a melon on a toothpick…”.


3 posted on 11/27/2025 3:12:28 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Moltke

” new archaeological evidence shows that the statues, known as moai, were not carved by a single powerful chiefdom.”

Who’s to say that the “chiefdom” didn’t order the carving of them? Or set up the quarry “workshops” in the 1st place?


4 posted on 11/27/2025 3:12:31 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Moltke

No alien technology needed. The people before us were just as smart as us. They had different tools and knowledge, but they were just as smart, often, smarter.


5 posted on 11/27/2025 3:12:33 AM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: marktwain

Technology lost is maybe more than technology discovered?


6 posted on 11/27/2025 3:20:10 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: marktwain

Actually, people back then must have been brilliant compared to today, somehow, they managed to quarry stones that weighed multiple tons, transport the for miles and then stack them on top of each other multiple stories high and did it all without modern heavy equipment.


7 posted on 11/27/2025 3:23:00 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: nuconvert

Exactly. I hate these eggheads that want to solve everything. They are as useless as critical analysis book and movie and art reviews of works done by people who are still alive.

It’s great to learn and explore and try to find out as much as possible about things don’t know for certain, but with ancient history it is likely that we will never know for certain, therefore stop pretending that you will know everything and stick to the facts available.


8 posted on 11/27/2025 3:23:41 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Moltke

Bookmar


9 posted on 11/27/2025 3:25:17 AM PST by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Party)
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To: srmanuel

There are some good websites and videos that review things like ancient and Middle Ages physics or windmills and capstans and pulleys and rope and knot technology that will amaze you. I love digging into things like this too.


10 posted on 11/27/2025 3:25:25 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: no-to-illegals

Application of physics.

Wally Washington built himself a Stonehenge from cement blocks anmbout the same size as the blue stones. He was able to move them around and place them in the same pattern by himself, using ancient techniques. Just to show that man was quite capable of building monolith without magic or alien technology.


11 posted on 11/27/2025 3:25:43 AM PST by Jonty30 (I've been diagnosed as being polemic and there is no cure. )
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To: Jonty30

So much more technology we mere humans still will discover & learn …..


12 posted on 11/27/2025 3:30:36 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Moltke
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13 posted on 11/27/2025 4:23:55 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Modern science is a wonderful thing, but the arrogance of many of the so-called experts hinders true scientific research. the Pyramids are a great example of this, after decades of research no one has come up with a solution to how they were built.


14 posted on 11/27/2025 4:51:12 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: marktwain

I recall reading many moons ago about the idea that there is some kind of degradation in each generational replication that is dumbing us down.


15 posted on 11/27/2025 5:34:02 AM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: marktwain

Agreed. As a young man I heard the theory that man has always been intellectually the same throughout the ages. The only thing that has really changed is the technology. Technology is where evolution truly exists.


16 posted on 11/27/2025 5:41:05 AM PST by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: Moltke

Total, TOTAL!!!! pure speculation seeking a foundation that has no evidence.

I believe the Moai were created not by the people now identified with them, but by people long before them whose civilization existed during the last ice age when the sea level was 400 feet lower and the Easter Islands were mountain tops to a civilization destroyed in the global floods 10-12,000 years ago. The later arrivals, refugees from the floods in the Pacific area, adopted the Moai and built their own myths about them.


17 posted on 11/27/2025 6:05:44 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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To: Moltke

Amazing that anyone actually believed that any “head of state” ever did any real work, and accomplished some major task by himself. It has always been and always will be the subordinates doing the work. These scientists are deeply stupid.


18 posted on 11/27/2025 7:06:23 AM PST by GingisK
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To: srmanuel

There are a few interesting theories, or “combined theories” that seem plausible.


19 posted on 11/27/2025 7:16:34 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Moltke
Meh!

Jack Kirby figured it out decades ago.


20 posted on 11/27/2025 7:29:59 AM PST by Bratch
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