There's Always More Than Meets the Eye, Especially in Easter Island

GuitarToneFreak · 05-16-2012, 08:48 PM

Pretty cool discovery here,

Rock heads of Easter Island have bodies, too

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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.)

River · 05-16-2012, 08:51 PM

I'll have to read up on that and think on it, but that's hard to do when your thread title gives me this Google ad:

What if there are boobies like that under there?

bertzie · 05-16-2012, 08:53 PM

They not only have bodies, they also wear thongs.

Joeydego · 05-16-2012, 08:54 PM

I'm getting Disney world ads. That insinuates all sorts of evil

Skintaster · 05-16-2012, 08:56 PM

Wow! They never checked before?

That's nuts.

leftyguitarman · 05-16-2012, 08:56 PM

You people really need to install Ad Block plus. I haven't seen an ad in years!

Joeydego · 05-16-2012, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Skintaster

Wow! They never checked before?

That's nuts.

And toes too, I bet.

Sinster · 05-16-2012, 08:57 PM

I hope they aren't digging all of them up.. or around. I think they should be left alone. Even though it's cool and all.

Joeydego · 05-16-2012, 09:00 PM

You'd think ancient people would have been more concerned with building Best Buy and televisions than some statues in the middle of nowhere.

River · 05-16-2012, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sinster

I hope they aren't digging all of them up.. or around. I think they should be left alone. Even though it's cool and all.

I agree, wholeheartedly. I think pulling up and auctioning panties from the Titanic is pretty sick, really.

bertzie · 05-16-2012, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by River

I agree, wholeheartedly. I think pulling up and auctioning panties from the Titanic is pretty sick, really.

Is that a legit thing?

Skintaster · 05-16-2012, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bertzie

Is that a legit thing?

I don't know about "panties", but they have sold bits of coal and shards of glass from the wreck of the Titanic in gift shops and on Ebay.

I always thought it was in pretty bad taste, and that's saying something.

River · 05-16-2012, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bertzie

Is that a legit thing?

"Personal items of clothing" are for sure. I even read an excellent article on same, with photos, in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago.

Are they actually auctioning panties? Yeah, probably. They were larger then, remember, and called "bloomers" or "underpants". "Panties" are simply the diminutive, current version thereof. Same difference.

Neofelis Nebulosa · 05-16-2012, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Skintaster

Wow! They never checked before?

That's nuts.

Exactly what I am thinking.

What the heck! You've got to be kidding me....is this some kind of cruel joke?

All these years....they never knew?

FrankieOliver · 05-16-2012, 09:16 PM

I'd always suspected they were full-body statues. I'm glad they've done a dig to confirm. This is awesome.

JonMan94 · 05-16-2012, 09:17 PM

I had the feeling that was the case, all these years. That's wicked cool though.

Who · 05-16-2012, 09:34 PM

Crap! I made a full-sized Easter-Island-head replica in my backyard years ago. Now I have to go back and add a body?!

I've been a fan of the heads even since Styx came out with "Pieces of Eight".

I'm with Skintaster on this. How the heck did no one ever look before?

Check it out! Man-boobs, a big gut, and showing off a small penis is not just a modern thing you see in Wal-Mart. It's a tradition that goes back hundreds of years!

(warning: Easter-Island sexting content)

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Originally Posted by leftyguitarman

You people really need to install Ad Block plus. I haven't seen an ad in years!

Uncool. This site gets paid from the advertising. I'm OK with getting hit with some targeted ads, to have free access to useful content.

Thumpalumpacus · 05-16-2012, 09:39 PM

That's pretty wild. I've always wondered that.

Ledheadforlife · 05-16-2012, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Skintaster

I don't know about "panties", but they have sold bits of coal and shards of glass from the wreck of the Titanic in gift shops and on Ebay.

I always thought it was in pretty bad taste, and that's saying something.

I'm pretty sure you can also buy a splinter from the cross that the experts are pretty sure was the one they crucified you know who on also...

Sloppy Joe · 05-16-2012, 09:46 PM

Aku Aku!

sonar1 · 05-16-2012, 09:48 PM

And, they're on horseback!

Keep digging fellas...

nbeersiii · 05-16-2012, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Skintaster

Wow! They never checked before?

That's nuts.

Thats what im screaming man!

Thumpalumpacus · 05-16-2012, 11:45 PM

After looking a little deeper (pardon the pun), I found this photo, of an excavation that is further along than the one shown in the OP:

MineGoesTo11 · 05-16-2012, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Joeydego

You'd think ancient people would have been more concerned with building Best Buy and televisions than some statues in the middle of nowhere.

Societies in decline like to build grandiose monuments to themselves.

MineGoesTo11 · 05-16-2012, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

After looking a little deeper (pardon the pun), I found this photo, of an excavation that is further along than the one shown in the OP:

Excavation, or evacuation?

***Led Zep Fan*** · 05-17-2012, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by bertzie

They not only have bodies, they also wear thongs.

That's amazing!

AXE · 05-17-2012, 07:29 AM

I knew it all along.

Thundergod · 05-17-2012, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Skintaster

Wow! They never checked before?

That's nuts.

This. You would think they'd looked for bodies a long time ago.

Thundergod · 05-17-2012, 07:40 AM

Wait... They have heads, faces and bodies? Then they represent aliens!

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