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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compair these carvings to the ones found at Göbekli Tepe
I made an easter island head out of snow : )
these photos are amazing !
And I don’t believe in ley lines
and dog probably tastes quite nice but I wouldn’t know
I love how all of the comments on this are people desperately trying to prove how clever they are. Go you. You’re all credits to our race.
And you are…a judge?
OF COURSE WE DO
Looking at the hill behind them it looks like the bodies got buried in a mudslide a while back.
If they were all facing the ocean my theory would have been that they were placed there to scare something off. By the size of the structures my guess would have been giants. After reading about them I have found out that most of them are facing inland which makes it more curious….
I hope they leave them where they are and do not move them. How did we become so materialistic — it seems we want to “own” all new discoveries. Easter Island will soon be known for “excavation holes” instead of the monoliths.
Can you imagine? “Look kids, giant monoliths used to occupy this gaping hole in the earth.” *eye roll*
No where does it say anything about moving them, people aren’t trying to own these discoveries, they are trying to discover them… Saying “Look kids, giant monoliths used to occupy this gaping hole in the earth” is better than “Look kids these are monoliths were never bothered to investigate anything about, too bad time and erosion has lost the information forever.”
Haha, is dicovering them in the first place not what would cause time and erosion to destroy them? Uncovering them that is. Look at the pyramids, what have we learned from them? Stonehendge, not much I would say that was beneficial to us, but does it look like anything is happening to them? or they are going any where either? I agree with Jake for one, I hope nobody would even be stupid enough to try to move them and damage them “further.”
Your an idiot. It’s call discovery, answers, history. Why were these statue put here and how. We’re trying to figure out what it all means.
>Your an idiot.
>Your
“You’re” perhaps even.
They need to do some crunches to blast those abs into six packs! The potbelly is the first sign of the decline of civilization.
Mason twists would do some wonders with some crunchy frogs.
I’d say the vanity of our society is the first sign of the decline of civilization.
Can I “like” that!? Lbs
Holy crap!!! Amazing! Please don’t be a fake.
Extra weight in most times in history would be a sign wealth (extra food and such) not necessarily lazy fat people.
{But they do need to get to a gym if they hope to bring out the Western Island Lady heads (with full bodies)}
I have seen several boat rebus in West Virginia petroglyphs. The boat on these stone statues resembles the ones in WV.
Wow. Not often we encounter surprises like this. That’s great.
Does the boat appear to be a part of the original creation, or was it graffitti added hundreds of years later?
Good observation. It isn’t as refined as the other ‘drawings’. It is also carved rather than relief.
I thought that was the original smiley face.