Did you ever see this about Easter Island?

[Daniela1982]

With a mass exceeding that of two Boeing 737 aircraft and a height of 72 feet, this incomplete Moai statue on Easter Island significantly exceeds the tallest standing Moai, which measures 33 feet in height. Remaining in its original quarry, this statue offers valuable insights into the exceptional craftsmanship and monumental undertakings of the Rapa Nui civilization.

And then they buried most of them except for the head and shoulders. Seeing there are no trees on the island, how did they move them? 😯

[Likes2drive]

The island had plenty of trees originally but little by little they were used up by the people who came there and never replanted them, all the resources were used up. They didn’t move those stones, they were carved in place the ones that were that big in the picture

[Daniela1982]

Well they all didn't get placed in different areas by being carved in place, especially if there was no rock strata beneath them.

[Likes2drive]

The smaller ones were moved where they needed them with the trees that used to be there

[Daniela1982]

You know that Easter Island is rocky, so normal wooden rollers would not work there. Neither would they work on sand with a 5-ton rock on them. Some of those statues weight 30 tons, way more than a pyramid stone at 2.5 tons.

[Likes2drive]

Maybe they floated them around the island on huge rafts that’s why they are on the coast of the island

[Daniela1982]

That is worse because then they would have to drag them uphill or up a cliff.

[Likes2drive]

Maybe there was less gravity back then 😊

[SuchSightsToShowYou]

A Kurt Vonnegut reference!!

_Slapstick_

[SuchSightsToShowYou]

At least according to Jared Diamond, in the book _Collapse_, wooden rollers were exactly how they moved those statues around. Although he did mention that the trees were destroyed in the process.

[Likes2drive]

@SuchSightsToShowYou Yeah but up and down hills would be the problem unless made a level dirt path to the area it was going. Would be a huge undertaking

[SuchSightsToShowYou]

The Easter Islanders were motivated. So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if they did some ground-leveling.

[lightbulb27]

gotta wonder if they were communicating to people and other nations they thought were in outer space, on the moon.

amazing... had some serious talent to build that. wonder what they were thinking.

[Gwendoline]

Manpower. They put enough bodies behind moving them

[NathanDavis]

trees can still be taken anywhere... they do float quite easily

that's what Americans did all the time

[Daniela1982]

Now people float loans.

[NathanDavis]

now people would order them from Amazon...

[AviatorTom]

It's amazing what a little leverage and some strong guys can accomplish.

[Surely]

The magicians were able to levitate things in those days!

[Daniela1982]

That wasn't levitating, it was just an erection. 🏒

[Surely]

My mistake!

[Dargil]

Been studying it off and on for years.

[Daniela1982]

Anything interesting that you have found out?

[Dargil]

Most Islanders were taken into slavery but their DNA of those remaining is Polynesian.

[Massageman]

Self-dissolving rollers?

[Daniela1982]

Rollers only work on flat and firm ground. They don't work well up or down hill.

[Massageman]

I was being facetious. ;- )

[Staximus]

There used to be trees on Easter Island

[Daniela1982]

Where are the crushed remains of any?

[Staximus]

I'm not an archaeologist but it's common knowledge that they chipped them all down to build stuff and burn

[woahhh152]

Is that you in your profile pic?

[Daniela1982]

The pumpkin?

[woahhh152]

Yeah