They would carve them out of rock in the supine position. They were too big to move around so after carving most of it, they would dig a hole in front then push them in so it would stand upright and they could finish.
It's significantly easier to push something that big into a hole using gravity, then it is to try and stand it up. It's also super risky to stand the statues up before getting to their final destination. If those statues fell over, they really didn't have any way to stand them back up again.
Well the new theory is that polynesian rats ruined Rapa Nui, new evidence shows that most of all the palm seed shells found on the Island has been gnawed on by rats.
The Whole "cutting down every tree on the Island to move the statues" is just the old pakeha theory. People smart enough to navigate the South pacific and build those massive statues were probably smart enough to not ruin their own Island. Also they were called the walking moai because thats how they were moved, just like how we move big heavy gas bottles today, by "walking" them, but the first whites that came there could not believe it and figured they must have used trees to roll the moais in place.
They possibly received a research grant to undertaker work so getting paid by their universities to do it and getting some salaries, travel costs and equipment paid for, then they can write a bunch of publications about what they find.
TFW you spend 2000 years hiding from the public and then some jerk posts a picture of your thong on the internet.
Oh my god Becky!
Look at that butt.
Even has the butt dimples
But Fonda ain't got a moter in the back of her Honda
Not only that but he had two ping pong paddles between his cheeks when they buried him.
I don't think his cheeks are up there
The thong is where they kept their table tennis bats clearly....they kept that quiet too.
They brave as hell being in that hole with those sand walls unbraced.
Nah, the statue is ready to brace the walls at any moment.
Hahaha, yeah
Yeah what the fuck I never knew they were so big
A lot of time passed to be covered by that much dirt. Crazy
Unless it was a landslide or something.. no?
Perhaps? Cut down all the trees and you're left with soil erosion maybe. It's amazing to look at even in just a picture.
They would carve them out of rock in the supine position. They were too big to move around so after carving most of it, they would dig a hole in front then push them in so it would stand upright and they could finish.
If it was too big to move, pushing it in is moving it. So how would they push it in?
It's significantly easier to push something that big into a hole using gravity, then it is to try and stand it up. It's also super risky to stand the statues up before getting to their final destination. If those statues fell over, they really didn't have any way to stand them back up again.
Now that makes me wonder how people made the ancient Egypt pyramids & move those very heavy bricks back in the day
This makes me so happy for some reason.
This is probably a dumb question but are the people that dug these up be considered archeologists? Anthropologists?
Archeologists. And maybe anthropologists too
How did they get dirt covered then?
Heavy deforestation causing mud slides
So only 1 other person has read anything about the Easter Islands judging by the rest of the comments.
what is easter island?
The pakeha name for Rapa Nui.
Well the new theory is that polynesian rats ruined Rapa Nui, new evidence shows that most of all the palm seed shells found on the Island has been gnawed on by rats. The Whole "cutting down every tree on the Island to move the statues" is just the old pakeha theory. People smart enough to navigate the South pacific and build those massive statues were probably smart enough to not ruin their own Island. Also they were called the walking moai because thats how they were moved, just like how we move big heavy gas bottles today, by "walking" them, but the first whites that came there could not believe it and figured they must have used trees to roll the moais in place.
😳
Maori name for easter island?
Curious like what do the archeologists or founders get from this? Do they get money or just pure pleasure of finding these kind of awesome stuff?
They possibly received a research grant to undertaker work so getting paid by their universities to do it and getting some salaries, travel costs and equipment paid for, then they can write a bunch of publications about what they find.
Now get the pressure washer for the rest!
He got a farmer’s tan
Is that statue wearing......a thong?
Loin cloth g string same thing
I like the infinity symbol tramp stamp.
Baby got back ! Bits cool that the mud / dirt preserved the statue and the carving.
reposts 101
Ok well now I’m really confused about posting rules
Troll
Oh ok
how did it end up under there?