Easter island heads have bodies!??

Excavations of the bodies have been going on for many years, you can find out more from the Easter Island Statue Project.  It’s generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD. There is controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried. Was it time and erosion, or were they buried on purpose?  Aliens?   The soil surrounding the bodies for so long has preserved interesting carvings (petroglyphs, or rock markings)..

This one below has a sailing ship carved onto it…

 

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  1. What I wonder, is if perhaps they weren’t carved in place from pre-existing rock formations that were already there… like volcanic spires leftover from vents that filled with lava and cooled or something. That might explain how they moved them there (they didn’t) and why they don’t fall over (bases go deep into the earth).


  2. Next I would look at statues that seem to have fallen over. Is there any evidence that they were buried after falling? Are they cracked or broken beneath the surface? This might answer the question of whether or not they were buried near there time of construction. It could be that several fell and then all were buried to keep them upright.


  3. Perhaps the statues were created to intimidate others who may want to invade. Or to distinguish the island for pride. Or a artistic ceremony of some sort. Modern peoples carve presidents heads into mountains, and religous symbols into rocks, knowing they will stand the test of time better than any other method. Tombstones too.


  4. Really? How many years did it take for someone to say,”gee I wonder if all those heads have bodies under there…genius!


  5. This actually makes it even more interesting. I don’t care what anyone says. I just don’t believe men moved tons of stone with logs, pivots, and rope. Our best cranes of today can barely move them. How did this stone get there? Was it already there and they just walked up and carved it into something?


  6. They look like coffins to me, maybe it was a prestegious people that was entombed intothese statues to preserve their presence or what not. Im sure they can scan through for that type of thing.

    The fact that just the heads always pops out, well if it was a mudslide wouldnt they be buried to varing degrees.

    just thoughts


  7. And what great sculputes are we creating and leaving behind today so that someday Mankind 1,000 years from today can marvel at our accomplishments?


  8. my question is what happened to them? Why they are extinct?

    They were obviously very advanced to have built such mammoth statues and if they were very advanced why have they ceased to exist? The same fate as the other ruins that have been dug up all over this planet. Watch the movie Chariots Of The Gods and you will find out this whole planet is full of this kind of stuff.


  9. only a few know about the stones..crush their hearts and the truth of the past will be known to all.


  10. plz leave the in the previosly mode beause they have important message for us . They want to say don’t be proved agaist the one God ,don’t follow the cruel powerful governments and dont kill poor people of the world becouse we were strong and cruel but now we are under the hell and no one of us are alive now !!!!


  11. So, let’s go back 600 plus years ago, you’re superticious you’re trying to make sense of life, the meaning of your existence, and all that jazz. But of course your human and it’s time do go to a neighboring island and kick some butt and do a little of that pillage thing. You may not be totally into it but somebody has come to your village and pillaged you and your family so you want to get some retribution or just get some free stuff. You set sail on your boats and out of the mist you see this island, it looks promising, it’s inhabitants may have attacked you or maybe not, but it really doesn’t matter, you got attitude and you’re adrenalin is pumping – but wait, what are those hummungously creepy looking head things on the hillside “hey skipper, what do you say we pass on this island and go onto the next?” you nervously say. The skipper replies “who wants to go home and drink some fermented bamboo root?” The crew unanimously responds “let’s go home and parrtay. OOO RAH!”
    The islanders inhabitants that watch the appraoching boat turn around say, “Those giant rock heads really work. Thier long massive bodies kept them standing in the last storm and gave them extra spiritual strength and power. Our rock inscriptions/petroglyghs added to their mysitcal strength and mana. Those things really work, high fives all around”.
    That’s my laymens take on it.
    Peter G.


    1. Only problem is that the place is the most remote inhabited island in the world. They’d have most likely been desperate for visitors.


      1. Yes, but “evil spirits” can visit too. And distance doesn’t matter to them.


      2. Unlike Gilligan, Thurston Howell, Ginger, and the others who had visitors every week


    2. Or , it was the freaking tourist attraction of its time… hey come visit us — we’ve used every tree on the Island and need food.


    3. they’re giant stone sex dolls. That’s where we get the saying “I’m hard as a rock”

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