Easter Island’s gargantuan stone statues walked. That is the controversial claim from archaeologists who have demonstrated the feat with a 4.4-tonne model of one of the baffling busts. They describe their work in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Nearly 1,000 statues litter Easter Island’s 163 square kilometres, with the largest weighing 74 tonnes and standing 10 metres tall. Much about the megaliths is mystery, but few of the enigmas are more perplexing than how the statues were shuttled kilometres from the rock quarries where they were carved.
Archaeologists have proposed that the Polynesians who settled Easter Island 800 years ago or more laid the statues (called moai) prone and rolled them along on logs. That idea supports the theory that the settlers, known as Rapa Nui, became so obsessed with statue-building that they denuded the island of its forests. But the archaeological evidence doesn’t really support it,” says Carl Lipo, an archaeologist at California State University, Long Beach, whose team instead proposes that the Rapa Nui ‘walked’ the moai by rocking them from side to side, as one might move a refrigerator.
Made to walk
Some statues are found on stone pedestals; others are in incomplete forms along roads or in a quarry. The incomplete statues — which Lipo says would have been modified once they reached their pedestals — lean noticeably forward, in a posture that doesn’t lend itself to horizontal transport, says Lipo. Broken moai along roads, which were presumably abandoned, also point to vertical transport. On roads that slope upwards away from the quarry, the statues lie on their backs, whereas downwards-sloping roads tend to be littered with face-planted moai, Lipo notes. Read full article here
Researchers have used a replica moai to show how the giant statues may have been “walked” to where they are displayed.
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one of my favorite mysteries.
But ive seen a man move and raise a 4 ton block in his back yard single handedly.
His engineering principles of fulcrum balance and shifting are simplicity it self.
Do wish I could recall the fellows name.
In this science and technique size and wieght of the stone barely matter at all what so ever. Its tedious painstaking and exact work, but it Can be done single handedly.
The only point where it matters as far as I can tell is when the wieght of the stone exceeds the ability for the strength of the stone to support its own wieght at the focal shifting point, and then the stone may break.
i do agree that we as modern man possess the ability to try and reason why things exist in places they are found, and with our current knowledge of engineering we further endeavor to explain these things as the marvels of man, but even though we can come up with explanations of these ancient megaliths, the fact is that the only techniques we have used to explain them have only been found to science in the last 100 years (or re-found), and the mathematical procedures used have only be found (re-found) in the last 2000 years. To this end i believe that there has been multiple points of history when we have had help in mathematics and levitation from other worldly powers, although where this knowledge disappeared is the real question, was it in the library at Alexandria? the tayos caves in Ecuador? the pit in Canada. Or simply destroyed by the wars of men which lead us into the dark ages. Maybe they left with the knowledge, knowing of mans untrustworthy nature and will to dominate his peers. We may never find out the answers.
Luke
also a little bit on the caves of tayos and their discovery in july this year http://www.alienscientist.com/forum/showthread.php?2449-Legendary-Metal-Library-Found-in-Tayos-Cave-in-Ecuador
And watch how fast we Never hear of this again as the powers that be swoop in, and black it out, confiscating all.
couldn’t agree more, im wondering who they killed/tortured/bribed to get the location because it was supposed to be a single tribes secret that they only shared with one man who died before leading an expedition that included Neil Armstrong, to its location. the tablets were supposed to depict alien beings as they appeared to the local population and some of the technology they possess.
I hate how much information like this is suppressed and goes missing, thus hindering our development as a society and a species.
Luke
Luke
My guess is, the Moai, used more than one method to get the statues to
their ‘resting’ places —————– don’t forget, not all of the statues are
standing!
Walking them? Patently absurd. Just like every other “mystery” of giant rock cutting and placement, including the great pyramids of Egypt, the rocks were moved the same way Edward Leedskalnin did it in building his Coral Castle in Florida (building and subsequently moving everything to a new site, alone). They lifted up and floated these into place. Tibetan monks were also witnessed doing this about 80 years ago. In the ‘Law of One’, Ra states how they made the pyramids about the time of Atlantis.
Ra: “Imagine the activity within all that is created. The energy, though finite, is quite large. This energy is intelligent. It is hierarchical. Just as you have a hierarchy of vehicles, or bodies [physical, etheric, etc.], so does each atom of such a material as rock.
When one can speak to that intelligence, the finite, physical energy of the physical rock body is put into contact with that infinite energy which is resident in the more well-tuned higher bodies, be they rock or human.
With this connection made a request may be given. The intelligence of infinite rock-ness communicates to its physical vehicle or body, and that splitting and moving which is desired is then carried out. ”
Most scientists are too pedantic and generally close-minded to the spiritual side of existence. Pity
Thats a small statue, some of them are three times that size. I can’t imagine them walking a 20+ ft stone.
Proof…that it can be man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4
Thats the one I was talking about RB, thanx. Ill have to reference this vid and the guys name while I have it. Coodos.
I am wondering how were they able to carve so many out of hard volcanic rock using stone tools? It can be done, but that would be rather slow…would they have had enough patience to carve, not one but hundreds? Those people were either mad or just bored out of their minds on that tiny island.
nano…im thinking that they had to set goals and priorities high enough to attain their wants.
measure twice, cut/grind once.
This walk?
http://www.ize.hu/_files/pics/00021/00021078.jpg
This is all people had time to do in the old days! They didn’t need to eat or have clothes or protect themselves from the weather!
Such backwards history
Lilly