Easter Island Moai Walked… Then Debunked?

[Skywizard]

I ran across this and thought I would post this as a thread because of the Ancient Aliens debunking video that was posted earlier. I just thought it might show how almost anything could be debunked if someone really worked at it.

Moai are human figures carved from rock on Easter Island. The tallest moai erected, was almost 33 ft high and weighed 82 tons; the heaviest erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tons; and one unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 69 ft tall with a weight of about 270 tons. The production and transportation of the 887 statues are considered remarkable creative and physical feats.

Oral histories recount how various people used divine power to command the statues to walk. The earliest accounts say a king named Tuu Ku Ihu moved them with the help of the god Makemake, while later stories tell of a woman who lived alone on the mountain ordering them about at her will.

Here are two videos that some experts think how they might have been moved (which both seem to work):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY&feature=player_embedded


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fFWjc04Q4&feature=player_embedded

Source:
http://www.nature.com/news/easter-island-statues-walked-out-of-quarry-1.11613

Now here's the "debunking" video (mainly aimed at the first video).

Basically it says the NG theory is bulls**t because this technique only works on flat terrain, and most of the statues are in elevated and rocky terrain, making it impossible to use the shown technique.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamzP7OyDCM&feature=player_embedded


You guys be the judge, they had to be moved someway! Just thought it would be interesting.


Just another GREAT mystery...
~skywizard

[cloud9]

Even more interesting it's the fact that the statues that seemed to be just heads actually have bodies on which inscriptions can be seen.

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[iceni tribe]

Easter Island Moai are quite similar to some of the T-stone embellishments at Göbekli Tepe notice the position of the arms and hands.


http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx171/naf09_2010/ancient%20monuments/Gobekli-Tepe-14.jpg

http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx171/naf09_2010/ancient%20monuments/moai1.jpg


it has also been said that the oldest Moai which are found furthest down on the island , are carved from a hard basalt rather than the volcanic tuffs from the usual quarry.

these quarries for the basalt moai are said to be under sea level and were explored by Jacques Cousteau and local divers some years ago.

now if the quarries are found to be under sea level for those older more finely carved statues then it's gonna throw the dates out of the perceived time line of Easter island back further than any one thought depending on how deep they are of coarse.
And yes their are plans in progress to make the first inspection of these underwater quarries in the not to distant future.