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Posted on 11/27/2025 2:58:31 AM PST by Moltke
One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Easter Island may finally be solved - as scientists pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ago.
In the past, researchers assumed that the 12 to 80-ton statues would have required the combined efforts of hundreds of labourers to build and move.
However, new archaeological evidence shows that the statues, known as moai, were not carved by a single powerful chiefdom.
Instead, each moai was carved by a small clan or by an individual family, with as few as four to six people working on a single statue.
Using a new 3D model of the island's main moai quarry, which you can explore below, archaeologists identified 30 unique 'workshops' where the statues were produced.
The researchers found that each clan seemed to have had their own unique artistic style, specialised techniques, and preferred digging sites.
Lead author Professor Carl Lipo, of Binghamton University, says: 'We see separate workshops that really align to different clan groups that are working intensively in their specific areas.
'You can really see graphically from the construction that there's a series of statues being made here, another series of statues here and that they're lined up next to each other.'
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Given the state of modern technology and machinery, if we asked the best scientists and engineers to rebuild the Pyramids without using modern technology and heavy equipment could they do it ??
“they managed to quarry stones that weighed multiple tons”
Baalbek.
That doesn’t solve the fundamental mystery: Why did they do it?
The same people who built the statues and built the polygonal masonry on the island. Obviously the Inca!
You nailed it!
A giant bunny. The baskets probably just rotted away.
Thanks Moltke. Hope you're having a great T-giving.
BTW, all, the construction by individual clans was known by the islanders themselves, and the information gathered in the 1950s by anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, and appears in Aku-Aku.
What proof would exist of such an advanced civilization?
The only thing that would survive the ravages of time would be huge stone structures, which is exactly what we see today.
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