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…
I am 57 Years old. I have known about these since I was in Elementary School. I am amazed that they just now discovered
these things have bodies.
I wonder if the designs identified as petroglyphs were supposed to represent tatoos? That would hint at a connection with Pacific islanders where tatoos are more customary than with South American civilizations. Actually, the broad facial features and heavy stature look rather Samoan or Maori to me.
I see that aswell… but could in a way they all be descendants of each other… Mayan, Aztec, Maori, Samoan, etc….
a common people referred to by different names in different regions…
If this were the case, we would have immediately seen it as we continue the human genome project. As it were, you can consult the genetics of the inhabitants to see who’s related to who, with far more certainty than almost anything archaeologists do.
than again.. what if the statues represent the different cultures of the time period… because if you really look things are different in the appearance of the faces/statues…
long chins/shot chins… the noses are different in some cases.. the bridge is wider or thinner… the nostrils flare up or flare down…
the belly on the 2nd to last photo is almost protruding out like it was a man of great weight… a beer belly, perhaps…
Lets see even during Columbus time period how could anyone at that time be able to dig up a huge hole move these huge multiple ton statues and drop them in the hole standing straight up? Even today no can answer how so many of these huge statues could even be moved all around the island. I would like to see with todays technology and machinery if those statues could be moved without destroying them!
it is a volcanic island… so the basalt and raw materials are right there in the mountain side… look at the rocky hills behind the statue in the one pic….
the ship etched in the stone of the one picture suggests evidence of wood… because you know wood is used to make ships/boats/skip jacks/rifts/canoes/kayaks…
maybe wooden poles under the gigantic statues similar to theories about egyptians moving the giant blocks… that’s the beauty of it man.. the unknown… that’s what is so captivating… no one knows shit about anything.. what science says or what they think is the best guess isn’t the answer… in all of we will never know…
Remember, much older civilizations (like the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans) were moving (even shipping) around huge monoliths that would later become the beautiful pillars that adorn ancient temples. If you go to, for example, the Roman Forum, you might be quite surprised what they could do in the days BCE.
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That’s the question that needs to be answered! Who at that time period had the knowledge and power to move these huge multiple ton statues around the island. Was is someone outside of this earth or was it some sort of magic?
I’m with you on that.. If anything maybe it will cause the archaeologist’s to rethink their tactics in excavating…
I mean look how long it took for someone to finally stop and say I wonder if these heads have bodies…. An article I read said they’ve been at it for 12 years and Excavation #6 is schedule for this october-november… So that means 2000 they started and it’s now 2012…
Just imagined all the stuff that is out there that could potentially have more to it.. I’m talking global stuff.. Like dig under Stone Henge for example… 100% guarentee there is stuff under those huge slabs of rock… maybe not chambers or something, but artifacts for damn sure…
hidden chambers apparently found with high tech machinery are hidden under the sphinx paw in egypt.. open it up…
a lot of it has to do with the nation it is in or the land.. and the history surrounding it… this day in age a lot of communities don’t want archaeologist’s digging because what they could find can cause major controversy… biblical excavations for example…
the stuff is out there waiting to be found.. and in a lot of places, near and far… people don’t want us to find it.
maybe not 2000.. it said 12 years of excavating.. some of the pics look old.. and it’s probably not that easy to get to(weather pending).. so the excavations could be sprung over a decade or so
Stone Henge could be the top of a crown on a very, very tall statue buried below…
ya, I’ve always wondered why they don’t x-ray the ground or something beneath these things
ya, someone needs to create a high tech stealth team that can send little camera robots into these places around the world and use sonar mapping n stuff all without the nations knowing…
e Really? Man you just spout all sorts of nonsense Jay. First of all….engineers have proven time and again that with the use of simple rollers, wedges, and huge labour forces and a lot of time, all of these ancient construction projects could be repeated today. They didn’t use high tech machines buried in the sphinx or ancient battery technology….just common sense and basic math….both of which you seem to lack an understanding of.
Clearly these heads were carved from the KNOWN quarry which is uphill from these heads…making the transportation much easier…being that the rolled them down hill, thus not requiring the use of large animals such as elephants that the Egyptians had access to. They are most likely buried because of the massive annual rainfall amounts of the island that, no doubt, washed massive amounts of sediments down the mountain on heavy rainfall years, potentially burying up to several inches of the statues. Just think it through a little….maybe read the reports on the easter island excavation project website…they are very educational.
If there is one constant throughout human story it is our ability to solve problems with creative solutions. Today we possess the ability to tunnel under the English channel, build 1500 foot tall buildings, level mountains and travel through outer space….kind of makes moving some big rocks seem sort of trivial….it is amazing that they accomplished what the did….but it sure as hell did not involve aliens or magic or crazy advanced technologies….just human innovation and determination
It was magic. Definitely. Probably divine magic, at that. None of that “fluffy” Merlin stuff…
wonder if they stitched animal skins or waxed threads and filled them with gases to make a hot air balloon and lift heavy things…
Yes, there are so many mysteries that archaeologists don’t have the answer to and attribute the answer to human ingenuity! Even now with our level of knowledge, what would it take for us in man power to carve out a statue of this size and then move it to one of the present locations on the island? We would have to build heavy duty cranes and pave out roads to and from the staute location. I really don’t know if any of our present day cranes would be able to lift one of these multiple ton statues. But here you have these huge statues positioned around the island!
You’re really not giving our civilization enough credit here. Go to West Virginia, where they’re removing entire mountains with big machines. Look at a huge steel girder being moved on an oversized semi – I think we have the technology to make more stone heads.
You know, Kim Kardashian buys a new eyeliner and it’s front page news. Now here is something that is truly fascinating and I happened to stumble on it through a back channel… These things have enthralled and mystified people for centuries, and now to find out there is a lot more to them?! Pretty cool. Those archaeologists must be in 7th heaven.
remember the guy down in Florida who made all the stone structures that amaze people the 3 ton door that you can open with one hand? I belive Ripley’s did a piece on it. He stated that he knew the secret and maybe we would all know how to do amazing works if it wasn’t for the book burners of the past, just think of how much time we wasted and the knowledge that we may never get back. Look at how fast we are destroying our planet and we call ourselfs advanced.
Much has been lost due to the fact that religion destroyed what they called pagan or evil magic
The guy that did those amazing things in Florida somehow learned one of the secrets from the past to move heavy stones mentally.
research it a little more… he had a home made contraption… 3 pretty tall wooden polls crossed at the top with a black “shoe-box” sized box on the top…
we worked alone… only at night… claimed to know the secrets of how the pyramids were built…
pictures from the era… show the contraption with the box on top of the poles… many suggest that is the secret to it all…
the box has never been found.
he worked alone**
Serge, basalt is not “tuff”. Those things would not have lasted 600 years had they been. Time to graduate 3rd grade.
Would they have to have been moved? Couldn’t they have excavated around these really cool rocks and carved what was already there into these statues?
that’s what I was thinking too Lisa – the rocks were already there. why do people think they were moved?
This is another subject that “modern archaeologists” will put aside and throw a cloak on it so not to disrupt the present theories produced by the “big brains” of the field.
When people cannot (or don’t want to) know or understand something start inventing all sort of silly fairy tales to make themselves right and others wrong.
That’s why we have Forbidden Archaeology, where the “brains” do not venture to explore. It is too compromising and dangerous for many actual “theories”.
We still haven’t fully came out from the dark ages.
Well said Oscar.
How can you say well said, you are hypocritical. A few posts down from here you are saying “save the stones leave them alone” and here you are agreeing with someone who is for the excavation of the statues. Idiot.