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Creative Speculation

RFCalifornia

(440 posts)

14. Um, no

Reply to Ponietz (Original post)

Fri Oct 1, 2021, 06:10 PM

Oct 2021

They were extinct by then

The folks on Rapa Nui, for example, say the Moai "walked there" when asked about how they got the structures to where they are now

Archaeologists, using ropes, were able to get the Moai to move from side to side, as if they were walking, by taking tens of people pulling on each side in cadence

Thus they "walked there"

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Were extinct Pleistocene megafauna harnessed to build the largest Neolithic monuments? [View all] Ponietz Sep 2021 OP

this is posted in the right group Kali Sep 2021 #1

Glad to be in the right cubbyhole Ponietz Sep 2021 #2

. Effete Snob Sep 2021 #4

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! zuul Sep 2021 #6

! Kali Sep 2021 #7

What did they eat, where were they kept, and where did their shit go? Effete Snob Sep 2021 #3

One must conduct a thorough search Ponietz Sep 2021 #8

They probably harnassed unicorns to move the smaller stones. zuul Sep 2021 #5

The yucksters are here Ponietz Sep 2021 #9

I did indeed have a good laugh, which I sorely needed. zuul Sep 2021 #10

Sorry to hear that Ponietz Sep 2021 #11

Only tangentially related to your OP canetoad Sep 2021 #12

This is interesting Ponietz Sep 2021 #13

Um, no RFCalifornia Oct 2021 #14

More evidence--timeline for domestication at least 2000 older than thought Ponietz Sep 2022 #15

Sure, I saw a movie about it.. EX500rider Oct 2022 #16

Good example from popular culture Ponietz Oct 2022 #17