I believe there is not much
in the world that arouses so much
of mystery ideas and this idea of
mystery it’s a maybe two
things first of all it’s deemed to be
the most isolated Latin of the world
it’s true that you have to go through
over 3000 km all around
seven-island boittin from another land
habitable but it’s very relative I
believe that the places lost in the
jungle are a lot more isolated than
Easter Island
but the second reason for the mysteries
of the Easter Island this is perhaps the
presence of an incredible number of
status on this island and in a thousand
for an island that only covers 170
square kilometers in total then a
points that has long intrigued and
that fuel this idea of mystery
that’s but how did they do to
carry all the statues and that’s
true that there is a challenge there since no
only its statutes are made
in a very fragile turf material
they are volcanic ash
consolidated but it’s not very solid
it is also working with nothing but
we can already attacked with a support
it does very little resistant
friction and it also resists very
little to shocks
the advantage that it’s not too dense too
heavy but they only have one fact of
requests large enough dimensions
for all their status but the
second point which is quite
amazing in this transport idea of
status is that the inhabitants of the island
easter the corner passes without me having
put the bar very high in deciding to
only carry a status when
are already fully fashioned
so that’s a real problem
since fashioned of you did
relatively simple but obviously
as soon as the statutes are completed
carry any friction could
damage your work the slightest shock
can break your status and so
transport statuses already
completely finish enough sounds
incredible then there are three proofs
to demonstrate that they have apparently
well carry complete statutes
the first proof is that in the
volcano
formed of Turkish served as a career for
to make his statutes there are some
still in large numbers that are
completely completed and that seems
wait to be transported work a
been interrupted
it’s a pretty important brief the
second proof is that under the
pruning fronts in the same volcano
volcano called aranoa raku in this
same volcano there is a whole series
debauchery of uncompleted status that
allow us to understand
the sculptor’s cutting techniques
Easter Island
he started with the details of the
face the nose eyes and ears
finely chiseled and then carved everything
belly arms along the body
and then only he ended in
digging from underneath to detach the
block of the cliff is emptying the back
finally there is a third proof
that maybe the strongest of the three
it’s just across the island
we recognize a series of old
paths and on these paths we find
of statutes bed of statutes which are
clearly abandoned during their
transport
gold these statutes along the paths I
old dishes are all statuses that
are intact and that are fully
fashioned so it seems fine that
it was entirely
completed that were transported
so there was a lot of testing for
to try to understand how we could
do that kind of manipulation which I
you do not remember him so much
complicated about the points
we have already done a lot of tests have
not the island of pag but among others here
in our regions about the famous
dolmen of prehistory to surrender
account that to shoot a few tons
was not implausible everything
in fact, but here we are in front of
difficulty of raw materials
a very fragile raw material
and who will have to handle with a
extreme softness
gold this island is a collection of
volcanoes there are ancient streams of
lava collapsed his wife as many
small valleys of valves where there is
the rock garden everywhere so it seems
extremely complicated then the
last experience to date i ‘m leaving
wanted to go over everything review the
last is this one it dates from 2011
these are American researchers who
tried to take literally the
only testimony we have of
pasqua on moving their
status they declared a researcher
British in 1914 that it was not so
complicated than that since in fact the
statuses market then they took his
turkey be and they did all
kinds of trying to try to do
walk a statue and the principle is
relatively simple there are three teams
which contain strings attached
face height to the statue the team
is behind is just there to remember
the weight of the statue is quickly avoided
that she rocks forward and then you
have two teams on the sides that
will shoot alternately at the statue
will pivot slightly on its base and
will walk slowly like this
she’s going to dodelinate within through the
choice
very well this solution made the buzz
and still makes the buzz on the internet and
it seems good for many to do the
buzz on the internet is enough to ensure
the authenticity of this type of approach
there is still a problem it’s
that it was tried here hawaii not
the easter island that’s not a
problem if only the terrain is
extremely flat here is clear I do not
know no space of this kind
Easter Island
so there is already a problem of
width needed to put all
the teams but especially the
reenactment here is effect a statue
in concrete what frankly had our
strength than the tuff and I would not like
no less agile of bread than with
a real stature in tuff with courses
purchase the head shot regularly
on this head that inevitably goes
to come off I let you imagine the
consequences
but I’m exaggerating maybe but we
will try to see if outside of this
little trace of irony what it is
actually of all this actually there is
a problem throughout the
reconstructions that have been attempted
so far it is that we left this
definitive idea that the pascuans do not
transported only statues
fully fashioned we know more too
ask questions about it I have you
showed they had three points
in fact his evidence has never been
criticized and we try very quickly
take them back first of all the famous ones the
first proof the statutes that
complete in the career volcano and
who seems to wait to be transported
the problem is that they did not
not at all the same dimensions as
the statutes found under
hotels scattered all over the island
hotel status is 3 4 meters
for the biggest
that of career voting make more than
10 meters it seems that we have
thought to use statuses of 10
meters to explain the transport of
status of 4 m but there are stronger these
statues stay in the career volcano
they are buried two-thirds
you have here a search that has been
done in 1955 by thor heyerdahl and who
shows you the incredible dimension
of its statutes and the fact that it was
locked in the ground we thought that
it may have been the erosion of the volcano
had ended up down the statuses this
which is not entirely likely
if you have a statue planted with the
volcano that causes erosion 7
behind the statue that it’s going
accumulate and l 20 days switch here
they are perfectly locked up
especially since if we had to take
erosion such an auteuil sometimes has ten
status meters locked in the ground
such erosion has for
millennia of millennia gold the
first steps have arrived on
Easter Island
there are about a little over a thousand
years now only second
difference is that statues stay
in the career volcano they have some
big kisses
you form the eyes that one
finds scattered on the island on the
status to hotels as the inrocks
says in post in Polynesian
they have hollows at parties
inlay and finally that of the volcano
career in profile or a head all to
do you do not know anymore by
above the red slice cap of
buns you see his picture on the left
bun that is very important among
Polynesians since it is in the east
bun is a large part of
the force him
so we have two productions completely
different and the fact that these statues
were locked in the ground
now we know by excavations
recent
it is a voluntary act we have
actually dug at the time of the
large pits to enclose statutes
and so it’s useless to think that
would one day go out of there
Besides, they are much too
large almost untransportable are
there at home then the second proof
it does that tuff when it is
exposed to the air changes very quickly
of color he is altered payne
oxidation phenomenon and by the rain
and you see very well here this is the
same status and 50 years of difference
between the two photos
the first black and white photo date
from 1955 and you see that in half
century
we have young people total transformation of
the color of its statutes that wants
simply say that it’s statutes
all fresh for been sunk in
the ground and as pretty boats that
were engraved on his boat statutes
than three months and several cars
and early European type boats
boats arrived only in 1722
so we’re here in front of a statue
quite recent
the second proof i ‘m going to go
much faster there because it’s
much more obvious maybe it’s
that the famous drafts its statutes
unfinished or can see the gestures of the
sculptor these famous and bourges do not
are not since none of these and
bourges is actually a stature to
horse
you have a head or are very good
we see the end of the turf vein and
never will this head have a body
is lying in the rock so it’s a
work quite improbable
if it comes to detach within the
left gives you another example
is quite spectacular
statuses you see is the head all
you are more than twenty meters from
height never she could detachable
not so much for his weight that is
huge but especially because such a
dimension of tuff can not fit into one
single block then second proof that they
fall the third will fall very
quickly also the famous statues lhomond
paths
I had the opportunity to be crazy
have one searched at the base of a
status you see it lying down and will you
find in this place a pit
dug in the worry
the one that kept her standing
with next door a second small
basin also dug into the rock
small pool of which we do not know the
uses but that we find
regularly in worship sites
to live from easter
finally on everything and statues lost along
paths
we studied the streaks dug
by rainwater it’s a matter
very tender tuff and hollow rain
small valleys small ditches
through its statutes and studies of
network of these channel allowed us to
reconstruct the entire history of the
status position and with this system
we can certify that all these statues
lost along the paths have all
been installed vertically during
a very long time
so what were we transporting for
to finish linpack since only three
evidence that was used to ensure
only carry statues
whole properly fine-tune it’s
too much proof does not work anymore is this
that means they do not
not transported status entirely
to fancy I do not know but in
anyway it’s not any more
sure then part of the answer
just another thing I had the opportunity
also to search some hotels in
ruined status today right
the example of a hotel with status
uncertain rectangular podium with
often a pebble terrace by nine
years and its catwalks stone is
can erect one two three four more
great monuments of a pingat up to 15
statues it’s quite a case
exceptional then the crowds that I have
could practice this through the terrace
pebbles to avoid damaging
monuments and under the different
monuments I searched no one you
see at the top of a cliff since 270
meters high in the extreme is
island
when one begins to search his
monuments we find what is called
the level of construction that is to say
the level that was being trodden for
allow the construction of the monument
is sourced level of construction on
find standards thickness of
tufa dust there is not at all
enough tuff than to think now
a raw block and they have fully
fashioned on the spot but there are many
Too many tubes to think they have
it’s really carrying a statue
so she’s more than little details
the solution is between the two they have
transported and bourges ie
enough material already removed
do not waste time on our
doors and too many points but absolutely
no fully completed status
so here’s the solutions becomes everything
suddenly much simpler and day a
example here of denis vinon island
white indonesia has nothing to do and and
zinc but that’s one of the solutions
quite practice like around
against the word to transport
blocks that do not worry too much about being a
little strong under the ground or damaged by
strings since the agreement its statutes
were largely manufactured once
arrived at destination
we find ourselves sending solutions
quite simple so here I see you a
little disappointed all this story or just
carry a simple blog
it’s a bit sad but let’s go back when
even backwards since I destroyed
the three proofs what is it
then his statutes planted on the
volcano slopes
what is it’s statuses have
carved sand finish in the same volcano
and what is it and statutes the
along the paths so that’s where the
thing becomes interesting by wanting
solve the problem of transporting
statues whose solution is after all
extremely banal and its mystery one gets
found before a documentation that he
must now interpret then
will put things in place of
statuses leaves the cut where are
far too big
they are more than 10 meters high
voluntarily locked up to two- thirds
of the author on the slopes of a volcano
you have a general view of this
volcano here it’s a thing that is not
banal are a hundred statues like
a gigantic planted on this volcano
right behind where he is a little bit more
clear on the facade of this volcano
these are the old front of size and
all these size fronts are occupied
by faces that are not finished
to unfinished bhl in fact the former of
career that for many
decades has been used to extract the tube
to make statuses of the pack
has become in itself a place of worship
it’s quite impressive to
realize that
by wanting to understand that the
technical gestures the problem the
manufacture of transport statuses on
veiled the face in front of a monument
absolutely amazing grand a whole
volcano what the same process to
crater letters all a volcano that has
been transformed into a vast monument
it’s probably the biggest monument
never built in polynesia paca
the island of pag and nowhere else
does not reach such dimensions in
using a very original event
of landscapes an ancient volcano for the
transform into a place of worship
then it remains as the famous
statues of paths josemi this photo
in an oval because here it’s a
reconstituted photo for once all
the others are authentic this one a
little bit cheated jelly of composing so
we look at all the statues lost on
along the paths
we see when the straightening what
whatever their position today everything
turns his back on career volcanoes
banter on the horizon but everything looks
people are leaving this path
want to go to the career volcano
we have always considered all
the paths as and from the
volcano career to go wear
statuses all over the island
in reality it was necessary to be
kept in the other direction and see these
paths made it possible to go to
volcano career that meanwhile is
transformed into a cult place all to
done fantastically with a hundred of
statues erected on the slopes of
volcano is over a thousand of
figurines on horseback on old
will make size then there I’m hungry for
constitution titles since all his
statuses are on the ground now and that I
obviously do not have the authorization god
thank you for lille to straighten them
but I did this to you by
photoshop and you have a little idea
there were altogether five roads that
was leading to this career volcano
and one is in front of a monument
this is not a volcano has
also all the plains
surrounding it extends over a
hundred square kilometers with its
paths that was lined with statues
colossal who were watching the visitor
going to this new place of worship
the history of Lille can be summed up
for that aspect there enough way
simple
there was a time we made
scattered hotels all over
island
it was domestic cults and he
seems that society is changing and
of projects afterwards and I have
dating threat of a process that has
lasted about two centuries we have
left this small domestic hotel
they have also been dismounted they
have the reputation of being in ruins but
in reality they were dismounted
status was voluntarily lay at
soil and precaution and instead we have
transformed career volcano into
fabulous monuments that were accessed
by years quite monumental
all in all the transportation of
easter status hardly
important
this wants to have a lot more
thank you very much
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