Easter Island Bodies found

Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is a privately funded research programme and archives produced by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP Founding and Directors, with Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Rapa Nui Künstler and co-director of EISP. This deep and immediate need for protection on the mai has become clear during more than 20 years of observational and farming experiences we made during our island-wide archeological investigation carried out in collaboration with our Chilean and Rapa Nui mates.

Easter Island Statue Project is based at 225 Arizona Avenue, Studio 500, Santa Monica, CA, 90401. EISP branch is in Mana Gallery, Petero Atamu s/n, Hanga Roa, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile.

The statues of Easter Island reveal bodies clad in unknown antique petrol glyphs.

About 2,000 leagues westward of Chile, on Easter Island, 887 huge sculptures have fascinated scholars and the general population for years. In October 2011, however, when the Easter Island Statue Project began its Easter Island Vxpedition, the researchers were able to show amazing photographs showing that the bodies of the sculptures lie much more inundation.

"Our ice sheet dig recently uncovered the torso of two 7-meter-high sculptures. "We found a round, low pillar in which the Rapa Nui had placed a log," she said. He said that cables were fastened to the log and the partly sculptured sculpture. "We found a cable that was actually hewn into the rock next to the statue."

He used the log to erect the sculpture. They were carving the front of the sculpture before it stood high. They also found about 800 g of native colored pigments - almost two pound - in the grave pit, along with a grave of people. Vin Tilburg thinks that the pigments were used to decorate the sculptures, just as the Rafa Nui painted their bodies for certain festivities.

An abnormally large amount of the found pigments suggests that it may have been used by a preacher or chieftain, perhaps as part of the funeral practices, she said. Throughout the excavation, man's bone was found, suggesting that humans bury their bodies around the sculptures. The Easter Island statue actually has bodies, surprised to see for itself, maybe even thousand of them!

But more importantly, we have learned a lot about the Rapa Nui technique of the old technique." Beneath their findings, the crew found: Both of the "heads" in the stone pit, where Van Tilburg's crew was digging, are stationary statues with torso cut off at the waistline and partly covered in rubble and erosion for hundreds of years.

"We found large amounts of scarlet, some of which were used to decorate the sculptures. Eventually, and perhaps most touchingly, we found on the sidewalk under a sculpture a singular rock engraved with a half-moon icon representing a kayak or vaca. On the back of both sculptures there are petroglyphic layers, many of which are also vaca.

However, many of these old rock paintings are still undiscovered and the story of one of the most distant isles in the worid is now even more misterious.