How Tall are the Easter Island Statues

Fatboy, the biggest sculpture on Easter Island (70 ft high), is actually not complete. Prepare to spend $17000 when you try to play with one of the Easter Island statues. Most of the statues are part of the island, but some of them have been moved to world-famous institutions such as the Louvre Museum in Paris and the British Museum.

Much has been said about the motion of these Easter Island statues, but a group of scholars has developed a new hypothesis for it. Whereas the big abdomen of the sculpture can be slightly inclined forward, the sturdy D-shaped pedestal allows it to move from one side to the other. But the locals are feeling different and say that the statues actually go!

Whilst different meteorological situations are a cause for this, visitors who touched or climbed over these statues also exacerbated the general aggravation. Archeologists believe that a mixture of all these elements can lead to a rapid decay of these statues in the coming years. Before that happens, I go to this island of mystery and uncover other secrets.

Where' d you get that head? Mysteries of Easter Island Statues

Since the first non-islanders reached the distant islands half a millenium ago, another, just as deep questions arises: Where did they get these caps? UK specialists, the first to work on the island since the mythical archeologist Katherine Routledge, believe they are one inch nearer to solving the mystery of the giant blocks of ice sitting on the solid gigantic black faces of the most distant populated place in the underworld.

Hamilton thinks that the "hats" may have depicted a braid or lace knots carried by the top chiefs, who were in a fierce battle for status and might, symbolized by the construction of ever larger statues designed as a mai in remembrance of their forefathers. You may have later been added to the statues available to charge them beyond their rival.

Presumably, these rulers mobilized huge crews of laborers to reap the rocks, which were then moved several leagues on moving logs to the three-storey statues set up on dedicated decks to improve their sizing. Those individuals were in a prosperous and well-organized community - Easter Island 500 years ago was a governed milieu.

" Scientists who will be spending a whole year every year for the next five years studying their results, including an obsidianadze - a 7-inch axes-like instrument used for undercutting tree trunks or wood - believe that the first "hats" were released between 1200 and 1300. In 1914 Katherine Routledge came with her man William as part of a groundbreaking UK mission to chart the famed statues.

There is a heated debate about the precise cause of the tragic fall of Easter Island, which was mentioned by a Netherlandish discoverer in 1722, but there is agreement that it was triggered by a tragic crises that may be due to scarcity of resources, conflict or sickness. However, the researchers working there are struggling to keep the tribal tradition going.

We have very strong regulations about what we can and cannot do, and we must uphold them," Dr Hamilton said. Polynesians saw the countryside as a live being and after they had cut the rocks, the ghosts stepped into the statues."