Moai, ,July National Geographic - General Tiki

A AceExplorer Grand Member (8 years) Deep in the Jacksonville Flori-duh jungle. Joined: Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 2566	A AceExplorer Posted posted on Sun, Jun 29, 2014 10:23 PM On 2014-06-29 15:52, TikiTacky wrote: This puts the "walking" Moai into a different light: Yeah, anything that tall must have been very unwieldy to "walk" anywhere. The risk of breaking a high percentage of finished moai was likely very high when using the "walking" technique with stone-age hand-made ropes. Of course, they seem to have exercised great care (if that's how they in fact moved them) in a similar manner to how the re-enactors did it. But still, once you raise a tall moai like that, you gotta keep tension on it from start to finish otherwise you risk toppling it. So a moai move would probably have been a big event for the islanders back then. On to another moai mystery... Has anyone figured out why some of those boys were buried with their hands down in their crotchal area? Seriously, I wonder. It's kinda funny. Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Moai...

On 2014-06-29 15:52, TikiTacky wrote:
This puts the "walking" Moai into a different light:

Yeah, anything that tall must have been very unwieldy to "walk" anywhere. The risk of breaking a high percentage of finished moai was likely very high when using the "walking" technique with stone-age hand-made ropes. Of course, they seem to have exercised great care (if that's how they in fact moved them) in a similar manner to how the re-enactors did it. But still, once you raise a tall moai like that, you gotta keep tension on it from start to finish otherwise you risk toppling it. So a moai move would probably have been a big event for the islanders back then.

On to another moai mystery... Has anyone figured out why some of those boys were buried with their hands down in their crotchal area? Seriously, I wonder. It's kinda funny.

Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Moai...

Post #721329 by AceExplorer on Sun, Jun 29, 2014 10:23 PM