New study challenges theories on Easter Island collapse

KITV ^ | 10 Dec 2013 | KITV

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How did they walk around with those giant heads?

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[Monterrosa-24]

The guy in the bottom photo in post #20 looks like William Meacham who is the author of THE RAPE OF THE TURIN SHROUD. He is a wild maverick in his interpretations. Controversies such as those surrounding Easter Island and the fall of the Mayan culture become fascinating when one gets into the details of competing schools of thought.

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Thanks. I think I have at least one Easter Island documentary on my PC. I’ll see if he’s in it. I’m sure YouTube has plenty of other docs too.

[Gay State Conservative]

A visit to Easter Island,the Galapagos Islands and to Antarctica are very close to being at the top of my “bucket list”.

[Jack Hammer]

Yes, it was the White man’s fault.

Again.

Of course.

[Theoria]

Yeah, no doubt. Seeing those beautiful locations would be incredible.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Greenspan destroyed Rapa Nui?

Okay, I can see that. They would have survived if they had.....a really nice train.....and tariffs.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Theoria. They were weeeaak, they died because of that. Wimps. ;')

[Fred Nerks]

iirc, the natives told Heyerdahl the statues walked by themselves. Your illustration shows they were correct. And not a single tree was cut down in the process.

[Popman]

I actually read Jared book “Collapse” .... I thought his analysis about Easter Island was rather lame....

In his closing arguments at the end of the book........ He says ....

You guessed it....

Global warming is the likely cause of future civilization collapsing....

[Flag_This]

These sarcophagi are located in Peru. Maybe it's just me, but they remind me of moai...

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I’ve never seen that National Geo doc before, but it does look as though they are rocking it back and forth in a walking manner.

[Rebelbase]

If I had groups of people trying to pull my head off from three different directions, I’d want a blindfold too.

[Fred Nerks]

I saw that event as part of a program on East Island, they did indeed rock the statue from side to side, and it ‘walked’ just as the natives described to Heyerdahl.

There’s a pdf showing the network or roads constructed for statue transportation:

http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo/papers/LipoAndHunt-2005.pdf

[Fred Nerks]

Easter Island, not East Island. Silly me.

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Thanks. I’ll take a look.

[Theoria]

I've seen the video.

Pretty interesting. No different than how we would walk a refrigerator with two people.

One of the cooler things was how the 'locals' said how the statues walked, from oral tradition. Took some years, but the scientist finally paid attention.

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It’s pretty much how I moved large heavy by myself when I moved to my new apartment. :)