4um: Hidden treat: The Easter Island heads also have BODIES

Title: Hidden treat: The Easter Island heads also have BODIES
Source: The Daily Mail (UK)
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet ... aster-Island-heads-BODIES.html
Published: Jun 7, 2012
Author: Eddie Wrenn
Post Date: 2012-06-07 16:04:07 by Original_Intent
Keywords: archaeology, Easter, Island, Mystery
Views: 488
Comments: 24

The enduring image in the public's mind of the mysterious heads on Easter Island is simply that - heads.

So it comes as quite a shock to see the heads from another angle - and discover that they have full bodies, extending down many, many feet into the ground of the island.

The Easter Island Statue Project has been carefully excavating two of 1,000-plus statues on the islands - doing their best to uncover the secrets of the mysterious stones, and the people who built them.

Inside the Easter Island statues: Experts have known about the bodies before, but when these images started circulating readers doubted their authenticity

The team also found large quantities of red pigment, some of which may have been used to paint the statues

Project director Jo Anne Van Tilburg said: 'Our EISP excavations recently exposed the torsos of two 7m tall statues.

'Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of visitors to the island have been astonished to see that, indeed, Easter Island statues have bodies!

'More important, however, we discovered a great deal about the Rapa Nui techniques of ancient engineering.'

Among their discoveries, the team have discovered:

The dirt and detritus partially burying the statues was washed down from above and not deliberately placed there to bury, protect, or support the statues
The statues were erected in place and stand on stone pavements
Post holes were cut into bedrock to support upright tree trunks
Rope guides were cut into bedrock around the post holes
Posts, ropes, stones, and different types of stone tools were all used to carve and raise the statues upright

The remote island - one of the remotest in the world, tucked away in the South Pacific Ocean - was once home to a Polynesian population, whose history remains mysterious.

They likely sailed to the islands in canoes - a 1,500-mile journey over the open waters, and then, once they landed, they began relentessly carving the stone statues.

This led to their own downfall: By the time Europeans discovered the island in the 1700s, the population had decimated nearly all the trees in the island to help with the statue construction, and the knock-on effect on the island's ecology led to their decline. The team working on the dig as they unveil the secrets of the heads - excavations recently exposed the torsos of two 7m tall statues

The team working on the dig as they unveil the secrets of the heads - excavations recently exposed the torsos of two 7m tall statues

Here's something not many people know: The Easter Island statues have bodies which go down many feet

Remote: Easter Island, in the South Pacific sea, is a 64miles-square island - one of the most remote in the world

The team also discovered that ceremonies were certainly associated with the statues.

On the project website, Van Tilburg said: 'We found large quantities of red pigment, some of which may have been used to paint the statues.

'Finally, and perhaps most poignantly, we found in the pavement under one statue a single stone carved with a crescent symbol said to represent a canoe, or vaka.

'The backs of both statues are covered with petroglyphs, many of which are also vaka. A direct connection between the vaka symbol and the identity of the artist or group owning the statue is strongly suggested.'

The interesting question that this raises, and not mentioned in the article, is that for the statues to be buried this deep implies a much greater age for them. Thousands of years greater.(5 images)

It's funny, not so long ago this was circulating the Internet, proved to be right after all lol:

Eventually the truth will out. What I find most interesting about what this says is a point that was studiously avoided by the article. It presents a couple of possibilities:

1. A much much greater age for the statues than has previously been attributed. It would take a verrrrrrrrrrry long time for those statues to be covered up that much by uniformitarian processes.

2. A great catastrophe in the not quite as distant prehistory which resulted in the rapid depositation of soils thus burying them.

Either is a conclusion that would be resisted by lamestream Archrankeology as it does not agree with the dogma of academia. Academia, contrary to popular misconception, is quite violent and virulent in enforcing adherence to the most popular delusions among their ranks. To disagree with their Holy Writ is to court a metaphorical burning at the stake. Just ask John Anthony West who has dared to question the received wisdom conceived in the splendid isolation, from reality, of the Ivory Tower.

1. A much much greater age for the statues than has previously been attributed. It would take a verrrrrrrrrrry long time for those statues to be covered up that much by uniformitarian processes.

2. A great catastrophe in the not quite as distant prehistory which resulted in the rapid depositation of soils thus burying them.

A catastrophe that catastrophic would have buried the folks along with it, wouldn't it?

Too many variables and too many unknowns. Thousands of years certainly, but even the experts (geologists who are actual scientists as opposed to archaeologists who are dogmatists) have trouble with estimating those kinds of data. It depends upon rainfall, runnoff, wind, etc., ...

2. A great catastrophe in the not quite as distant prehistory which resulted in the rapid depositation of soils thus burying them.

People can move. Statues can't. As well the Easter Islanders do have legends of just such a catastrophe. Their legend has it that Easter Island was a mountain top surrounded by dry land - the site of the fabled Lemuria of the James Churchward books.

Even more interesting is that there were originally two different genetic groups on the Island - the "Long Ears" and the "Short Ears". For a long time the "Long Ears" were the dominant group but were eventually wiped out by the "Short Ears". And they literally did have long ears - long extended earlobes. Interestingly if you look at pictures of Buddha and his contemporaries they had long ear lobes, much longer than what would be regarded today has the human norm. However, that creates another tie-in to Vedic India.

There are all sorts of interesting connections and tie-ins in the ancient world when you start digging through ancient records and legends. If one grants that legend usually had an origin in fact, however distorted it becomes over time, then the data begins tying together to paint a much different picture than the party line.