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…
All the faces are different, and the bodies too…I think they represent individuals in a tribe as tribute, or individual families, or induvidual protectors of the tribe; like the terra cotta warriors of China. These pay homage to something… or are a totem to ancestors… very interesting.
Yes Rick, they pay homage to something.. or are a totem to ancestors. Let’s dig them out…..This must be for what ancestors placed them for. Let’s dig them all out.This is how we will pay homage to them….
it’s not like they’re lifting them from the earth… they are removing the EARTH AROUND IT SO IT CAN BE FULLY EXPOSED…
Seriously, A CELT??? Have you stopped and thought about anything you have argued???
Because the points you are trying to make are so f**king hypocritical that nothing you say makes sense…
It would be a disservice to the inhabitants of Easter Island if the statues didn’t get fully revealed.. THEY CAN FINALLY LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR PAST!!!
And how hypocritical is that Jay ?
I am so glad you can speak for them.
A Celt, yes, somewhat, unfortunately, I can only trace my family back to the 13th century.
ah yes… you finally posted a comment without a spelling error….
chances are your family doesn’t have gigantic heads located all around their homeland…
you don’t know anymore than any one else…
but I know and everyone else knows… there is no raping of nature or land going on… they are simply excavating thing to the meticulous level…
it’s not just some punk off the streets with a shovel… it’s an organized, proper channel event, that almost certainly needed the approval of the Easter Island inhabitants to begin with…
once again…. digs and discoverys come down to where it is located… the people on that location give the word to dig or not to dig…
it’s very evident that they have the authority to do what they are doing with these excavations… that means someone is allowing them to do it…
that don’t mean people won’t be against it… but, the shit you are arguing about raping land and ruining shit… nah… that’s not happening..
Thank you Jay. Well said.
Maybe they did that just so future generations would ask why…
WOW, no one gives US-humans anough credit. we have bilt these things, we do bild huge things. it takes longer now & cost mucho $. back then some haed hoosy madincker just said bild it or the gods will be angry, so you find a way to bild it! not for money or fame but for your gods and for protection, for healthy crops and for strong offspring. where theres a wiil theres a way.
Peter, please let us know when you’re running for President. You have my vote. Renee, Please learn to spell and compose a complete, coherent sentence. Seriously when I saw the bodies, I was completely stunned, I wasn’t expecting that at all.
Thanks Ramona, it blows my mind when people cannot form a senence.
WWoww !
awsome stuff the ETs can do, they have us beat by a long shot !
I’m pretty sure that the statues each represent a different leader/king, the first big assumption that people make and forget is that even though they were in a similar time period, it doesn’t mean that each statue is the exact same age…
I am fascinated to hear more about it, i’m half chilean and i went to school there and learned a lot about rappa nui when i was there, and hopefully a lot of people get their sources as direct as possible before regurgitating things that are interpreted as “facts” when they are only speculative in nature.
It makes me wonder if future civilizations will even know our generations existed..seems like every thing made these days is about “the bottom line” ($$$) and falls apart. except for our huge amounts of waste…
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Is it just me or did someone finally decide to dig around the heads and discover they were more than just heads?
That carving of the sailing ship looks like vastly inferior artistry compared to the rest. I’d guess it’s not original, more like graffiti that was applied well after inception.
I remember reading stories as a kid about how the statues would come out of the ground every Christmas Eve to go to the ocean and bathe. There was supposedly treasure under the statues, and while you were climbing down to get it, the statues would come back and crush you. People laughed at the superstitious natives, until one Archeologist dug a little and discovered the bodies. That was back in the ’70s, so why is a surprise now?