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Thread started 05/18/12 10:41pm

noimageatall

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Rock heads of Easter Island have bodies!

I don't care if no one reads it. Not putting it in P&R. hmph! lol

But I think this is fascinating!!! eek

How did they do it?

http://now.msn.com/now/05...atues.aspx

For years, the 887 massive sculpted heads of Easter Island have been considered an enigma. The mystery has literally deepened ever since an excavation started in October 2011 revealed the ancient heads that dot the island are actually full-figured statues, buried up to their necks in soil.

Photographs on Thinkbox of the excavation reveal unique carvings hidden on the huge underground bodies and have opened up a fresh discussion of the monoliths online. The layered petroglyph writings, carved into the backs of the massive figures, are composed in a design thought to represent the sun and rainbow. Tuna vertebrae found in the soil at the base of the statues hints that sculptors were paid in food as their descendants, the Rapa Nui, have always claimed. (Starving artists today can empathize.)


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Reply #1 posted 05/18/12 10:53pm

NinaB

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Wow! This really is fascinating - i agree with u smile thanks for the heads up. It's amazing to me also that they have only now found this out!
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Reply #2 posted 05/19/12 4:06am

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Thanks for sharing.

"Think inside out." stoned https://www.facebook.com/drjudywood http://www.theperthgroup....entary.pdf

http://archive.org/detail...eather_451 http://www.controversyofz.../index.htm
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Reply #3 posted 05/19/12 4:35am

ThisOne

wow thats awsome!!!!

what i want to know is how did they do that 900 years ago???? its just as fascinating as the pyramids!!!

cool

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Reply #4 posted 05/19/12 5:20am

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cool!

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Reply #5 posted 05/19/12 2:41pm

babynoz

omg This is interesting,

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Reply #6 posted 05/19/12 3:15pm

mrsquirrel

This would suggest that sea levels rose without anthropogenic climate change, unless the statues were pre-buried.

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Reply #7 posted 05/19/12 4:34pm

kewlschool

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Very cool.

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