Where Did the Easter Island Statues Come from? | BBC Earth

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The fact that human beings thrived there for so long is the true enigma. The statues are are just what people do. The humanity,the complexity or our wandering species is the real fascination.

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From the solar panel people. Lol

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From Easter island! DERRRRPPP!

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Now we know that the Moais were moved in a vertical way shaking the statue side-to-side with ropes over the head. That's why the rapanui people said that the moai "walked" to the Ahu from the volcanic fields. Only physical principles.

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The Moai will be where the Moai will be 🗿

[@jensbond93]

they weren't pulled. they walked

[@BirdedGO]

Nooo!, Rapa nui made them

[@BirdedGO]

And people made them

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so much easier to think some external force made it instead of believing we humans can make this

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Bro shut up

[@javierramirez4722]

Degravitated thats the way they moved those lemurians statues

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Me the whole time watching this 🗿

[@telboyjack100]

They were cut from the quarry in cylindrical form and then rolled to the site where they were carved into shape. Simples!

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Question: Where they intentionally partially buried, or was the ground level that much lower when they were first placed there?

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​@@jerseyrob1817 research common sense?

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@@adee6467 No such thing.

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🗿"I'm bored." 🗿"Hm." ⬆ Moai (bored)

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These are Gigachads 1:32

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no, my dad built them last week

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Ife Ade boiii lier no he didn't your such a lier

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Ife Ade plus they were made a long time ago

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[@donnalambs9578]

Yes they showed up all around my town too.

[@diyar-dg5sk]

the narrator forgot how different the size and strength of humans were back then compared to now lol

[@BornAgainCynic0086]

Where Did the Easter Island Statues Come from? Umm, err, Easter Island?

[@thanxreaperlux1126]

They don't have any idea that their work admired as meme chad.

[@silversurferthasplurger4431]

I always thought extraterrestrials had involvement in this, damn ancient aliens

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Dont you know who they really where?

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@@Dragon-Slay3r who really where who?

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@@blueboy4life Don't why where who when?!

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Chama!

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Fascinating

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+Maryum Tariq agreed

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[@opensocietyenjoyer]

there is nothing astonishing at the least artful art of human history

[@Studiosambalek]

How did they get the stone hats on top of the statues? Apparently they weigh 10 tons. If you ask me it's because they were not primitive but had advanced technology.

[@mrkebab9051]

Bruh🗿

[@allen1411]

Very fascinating!

[@NobleGrows]

This is an amazing accomplishment by that civilization meanwhile on The History Channel: ALIENS 👽

[@SuperZarrabal]

So, where did they come from?

[@beluga-chan2271]

Still a mystery

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You alive ?bta

[@akilizz_]

@@beluga-chan2271Nope scientists figured it was made by tongan ppl during the tui tonga empire

[@beluga-chan2271]

@@akilizz_ so it was worshipped by pegans?

[@akilizz_]

@@beluga-chan2271 No tongans were pagans...the tui tonga empire were the best voyagers in the sea they travelled in the pacific to other islands and would 💀 the ppl there and sometimes put a mark on the area they seized. I guess they sailed to easter island and brang stuff from other places to create these statues.

[@H_Yukikaze]

*Sad Moyai Noises* 🗿

[@SkepticalChris]

Rollers would only work if the rolling logs were perfectly cylindrical and the ground flat and level. Likely they were dragged but I lashed onto a wooden frame or sled to reduce surface area and friction

[@austinmartinez2312]

Very barbaric lol. Someone definitely pulled something

[@James-kv6kb]

So we didn't really find out anything we didn't know

[@abacus749]

The brown hats on some of the Easter Island statues are possibly KOLPIK/ SHTREIMEL HATS. Alexander Salmon Jr.was the DE FACTO RULER of Easter Island from 1878 to 1888. Alexander Salmon Jr. with an English father and Tahitian mother was also a Jew, and he had a godlike status on Easter Island. The BROWN KOLPIK HATS with the raised crown were probably a tribute to Alexander Salmon who was possibly given such a hat by his father. The family were a mercantile dynasty with extensive plantations in the South Seas.

[@jackpot6056]

Was this recorded before they discovered these statues have 40 foot bodies buried under ground?

[@Kostya2005]

This is moai statue 🗿 was very popular landmarks

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Alex pereira 👊🏽🪨 the UFC Light heavyweight Champ brought me here 🗿 #chama 🔥

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This was the point of a bigger island that sank long ago

[@Starfishtroopers]

gobekli tepe ... and the mystery deepens

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moai: give me gum gum you dum dum

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you will never know about the past. Because looking at the past with the way you think now. And besides, you feel smarter than them.

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my honest reaction:

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Io love history

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I know how the moi was moved...the hats are counter wates .a rope gos between the moi and the hat ...the moi walked down the hill by this self..4 men can move the moi....thairs a Chinese toy that does the same thing. ... sorry about the spelling 😅

[@jasoneboles]

Everyone is overlooking the obvious. The Easter Bunny put them there.

[@philipthomas3938]

The original moai were basalt and extremely hard to carve without higher technology which the stone Age Polynesians didn't have

[@grantwilson9673]

They are cool

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Wow

[@MuhammadEgypt]

So, who made them?

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ancient aliens

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+JewTube yup, ancient aliens from a parallel universe.

[@mannyperez28]

JewTube it was the lyrans that helped the Polynesians buit the statues they gave them the tools to buit them their leader was Viracocoha and those statues represent him they were giants like around 16 feet or way more feet read about them

[@supaasandy9807]

The same rapanui people. They made the statues of volcanic rock, carving from the 2 volcanic fields of the island. It is possible that the inca people had hepled.

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Mohamed Farouk nephilim

[@dorothyrichter1680]

Must be the illuminati! They've blamed stranger things on them! LOL

[@ancientmesopotamian1699]

They came from the indigenous people who use to live on this island.

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+Gavin 123 an island that small and that far from mainalnds cant sustain more then a few people and also that island doesint have any barried bones , meaning there was no life on it

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still live on the island*

[@Omar_2923]

The Easter Island statue is from Chile

[@danhorne3582]

We got it good here , Stay away . We are Mighty and Strong , Enough said .

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Oh so they had chainsaws back then too to cut down all the trees that didn’t exist on the island

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aliens

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Where? Amazon, like everything.

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When and after I did Ayahuasca in a lethal dosage. Eastern Island is the place I will need to go. I cannot explain why but I need to go there is I can survive the Ayahuasca trial. I need some help because going to Peru is one thing but reaching Eastern Island with the freedom to move on the Island and around the island , and to stay there as long as needed. I may die at Eastern Island because I will have to do something dangerous and yes I'm fearless except for one thing "Thalassophobia is an intense phobia or fear of large or deep water. If you have thalassophobia, you may be afraid of the ocean, sea, and large lakes." and yes this mean that I will have to swim into the water around the island and accomplish the Bird Man trial. Even if I have thalassophobia , I will face my deepest fear and accomplish this trial or die trying. I will need help and ressources at some point because there is only so much I can do alone.

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For the Mayans and Aztecs. From me. Please. Thank you.

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Aliens, where else dude?

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We as people have not changed much in the last 3 million years. We have gained some knowledge through science but we are destroying our planet physically and humanity, socially. Global commerce is the key driving force behind this.

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They will come soon enough.

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The jagged zigzag room head cover for jinn face the music situation in ancient times 😂 Regards Pharoah 🖕

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Ha academics once again insisting they know anything about these statues when its plainly obvious nobody does. What’s shown here is absolutely hilarious.

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The giants played "chess".

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David Attenborough in a history documentary?

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Dam Cavedwellers

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Why should we assume the statues were moved? Can we assume that they were built at the same spot they now stand? For instance, people could have moved cement to the spot by the pound and mixed the cement with water to get cement concrete, and then moulded the concrete into statues with human fingers.

[@tarafderpriyam1509]

It isn't made of cement. -_- It is made of volcanic rocks in a rock quarry close to the mouth of the volcanic crater on that island. Yeah it's true that out of the 800 statues on that island 400 are around that crater, but rest are scattered around the island. So obviously they had to be moved.

[@legpol]

@@tarafderpriyam1509 ：Thank you. If you believe the statues were made from rocks, then you need to show what metal tools were used to carve them, and how they were transported around. If we believe they were made with cement, you don't need to do all these. Let me show you cement was also used to build something else, such as the platform on which the 15 statues stand, and the pedestals on which each statue stand. Please go and take a hard look at the 15 statues and the pedestals built with cement and pebbles. You will find all the 15 statues are hollow. If they were built with rock, they would not be hollow, they don't need any pedestals to stand on. Please come back and tell me again.

[@tarafderpriyam1509]

@@legpol 1. Cement was discovered in 1824, while these were made hundreds of years ago. 2. They are not hollow. 3. Archaeologists have practically demonstrated that it wasn't hard for the people to carve those statues with simple tools since once the rock is broken, it can be easily cut into desired shape. 4. Which pedestal are you talking about? The one where the statues are lined up above the ground?

[@legpol]

@@tarafderpriyam1509 : Maybe I was talking about a different kind of cement invented by people thousands of years ago. You see, ancient people built brick walls thousands of years ago. What material were the bricks made of? What was the binding material called? The pedestals I talked about are those under the 15 statues on a long black platform. The platform must be built by a kind of cement. Then, the 15 statues are supported by 15 pedestals made of pebbles which in turn are held together with a whitish binder, and I called the binder cement. The 15 statues must be held by the pedestals so firmly that the statues will not be toppled by winds from the sea. Therefore, the 15 statues must be hollow.

[@tarafderpriyam1509]

@@legpol yeah some form of cementing material might have been used. But they are already so heavy that their centre of gravity is quite low so they aren't toppled. Not because they are hollow. But they had to be moved from one place to another either way.

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Ahhh pretty stones where is everybody?

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i'm sure they just "made their gods" & started worshiping them, like all ancient civilizations!

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I dont say it was aliens...

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Aliens made them

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Dropped from above by alien craft !!

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nah uh its the tui tonga empire

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it's so easy to move them. And with out wood rollers, Why are people still going on about this. And i can tell you not one person is correct. I could move them easy . But i wont say till someone really wants the knowledge.

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Michael Stuart : Why should we assume the statues were moved? Can we assume that they were built at the same spot they now stand? For instance, people could have moved cement to the spot by the pound and mixed the cement with water to get cement concrete, and then moulded the concrete into statues with human fingers.

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They just want gum gum

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Moai 🗿

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Ancient civilization was more advanced than us

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And they had more time. Built things to last!

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Moors...

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I did not understand a thing he said

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So you can write in English but can't understand it when spoken?

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Ramjet164 Chilean education problems.