DNA of Easter Island

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The Mysteries of Easter Island
by Jean-Michel Schwartz

Foreword by Sam Sloan

Easter Island is famous for its 887 monumental statues. Nobody really
knows who made those statutes, or how or why. New Theories are being
advanced, new studies made and new books published about this all the
time.
Anybody who claims to know the answers to these questions probably
really does not know, or at least not for sure.
Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. Its
closest inhabited neighbor is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 km (1,289 mi) to
the west, with fewer than 100 inhabitants. Easter Island's latitude is
close to that of Caldera, Chile, and it lies 3,510 km (2,180 mi) west
of continental Chile at its nearest point (between Lota and Lebu).
Isla Salas y Gómez, 415 km (258 mi) to the east, is closer but is
uninhabited.
It has been suggested that the pirate Edward Davis or Davies, who
conducted raids in 1680-1688, may have been the first European to
visit Easter Island. The first–recorded European contact with the
island was on April 5 (Easter Sunday), 1722, when Dutch navigator
Jacob Roggeveen visited the island for a week and estimated a
population of 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants.
The most popular theory about the colonization of Easter Island is the
Kon-Tiki Theory advanced by Thor Heyerdahl in his book published in
1947. So much has been said and written about this theory and it has
been so widely publicized that a majority of the general population
believes that it has been proven. However, this theory is bunk. No
qualified researcher takes it seriously.
Thor Heyerdahl's theory is that Easter Island was populated by Native
Americans who sailed from what is now Chile. He claims that the winds
blow to the West and thus the winds could have carried a sail boat
like the Kon-Tiki there.
One problem with this theory is that the Ocean Currents flow in the
opposite direction. A man in a canoe paddling around Tahiti, if he got
lost or swept away by the currents, would go East and might wind up at
Easter Island or in Chile. He could eat fish from the sea along the
way.
This brings up the related question of how did Chile get populated. It
is almost universally agreed that most Native Americans got to America
by crossing what is now the Bering Strait around 14,000 years ago and
over the next thousand years making their way down to the bottom of
South America.
The current wisdom is all Native Americans alive today are descended
from a relative handful of families who crossed the Bering Strait. A
new study of DNA patterns throughout the world suggests that North
America was originally populated by no more than 70 people. Most
experts agree that, around 14,000 years ago, a group of humans crossed
the land bridge that connected what is now Siberia in Russia with
Alaska. This does not eliminate the possibility that some inhabitants
might have reached here in other ways, but did not survive until
today.
Although that is how most Native Americans got here, there remains the
possibility that a few of them got here in other ways. If Easter
Island was reached by small boat from Polynesia, as almost all
researchers now believe, then by the same route they could have and
probably would have researched Chile too.
This debate goes on and on and will probably never be completely
solved in our lifetimes.
Easter island is about 24.6 km (15.3 mi) long by 12.3 km (7.6 mi) at
its widest point; its overall shape is triangular. It has an area of
163.6 square kilometres (63.2 sq mi), and a maximum altitude of 507
meters (1,663 ft). There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at
Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but
no permanent streams or rivers.
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island range from 300
to 1200 A.D., approximately coinciding with the arrival of the first
settlers in Hawaii.
I personally believe that, while Easter Island may have been colonized
in that time range, it was far less isolated than is otherwise
believed. I believe that there was regular commerce and interchange of
peoples with both Tahiti and Chile even in relatively recent but pre-
Columbian times. I believe that people have been regularly traveling
back and forth two thousand miles by canoe, even though it seems
impossible.
I base this on the fact that when the Captain James Cook arrived in
Easter Island in 1774, one of his crew members, a Polynesian from Bora
Bora, was able to communicate with the Rapa Nui. The language most
similar to Rapa Nui is Mangarevan with an 80% similarity in
vocabulary. A 1999 voyage with reconstructed Polynesian boats was able
to reach Easter Island from Mangareva in 19 days.
Languages diverge more rapidly than that. Take English for example. If
we could being back to life a man who lived in England one thousand
years ago, we would not be able to understand even one word of what he
says. It is not even necessary to go back that far. If we travel to
Leeds, England or even to Birmingham, we understand nothing of what
they are saying.
The fact that the Easter Islanders could be understand by a man from
an island more than two thousand miles away shows that there was
relatively recent exchanges between those islanders.
With all the books having been written about Easter Island, why have I
chosen to reprint “The Mysteries of Easter Island” by Jean-Michel
Schwartz?
The answer is I like the book and it is hard to find. It is the only
book I have found that adequately explains how the giant statues were
created and how they were transported. Basically, the statues were cut
from the lips of the three volcanoes on the island. This still does
not answer the question of how they were brought down to the water's
edge.
I first read this book a dozen years ago. When I tried to find it
again recently, I could not. Eventually, I bought all the books about
Easter Island until finally I found it. The main problem was that
there are so many books about Easter Island and some of them bear
exactly the same name, “Mysteries of Easter Island”.
This book was first published by Robert Laffont in France in 1973 as
Nouvelles recherches sur l'île de Pâques. Transport des statues -
déchiffrement de l'écriture rongo-rongo.
It was translated into English and first published in the USA in 1975.
Jean-Michael Schwartz also wrote another book in 1979. This one is
entitled “Secrets of Easter Island”. However, “The Mysteries of Easter
Island” and “Secrets of Easter Island” are exactly the same book. Not
a singe word inside the books is changed. They are just copies of each
other. The only difference is the title and the picture on the front
cover.

Sam Sloan
San Rafael California
July 24, 2011

http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
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On Jul 25, 7:26*am, samsloan wrote:
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Easter island is about 24.6 km (15.3 mi) long by 12.3 km (7.6 mi) at
its widest point; its overall shape is triangular. It has an area of
163.6 square kilometres (63.2 sq mi), and a maximum altitude of 507
meters (1,663 ft). There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at
Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but
no permanent streams or rivers.
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island range from 300
to 1200 A.D., approximately coinciding with the arrival of the first
settlers in Hawaii.
I personally believe that, while Easter Island may have been colonized
in that time range, it was far less isolated than is otherwise
believed. I believe that there was regular commerce and interchange of
peoples with both Tahiti and Chile even in relatively recent but pre-
Columbian times. I believe that people have been regularly traveling
back and forth two thousand miles by canoe, even though it seems
impossible.
I base this on the fact that when the Captain James Cook arrived in
Easter Island in 1774, one of his crew members, a Polynesian from Bora
Bora, was able to communicate with the Rapa Nui. The language most
similar to Rapa Nui is Mangarevan with an 80% similarity in
vocabulary. A 1999 voyage with reconstructed Polynesian boats was able
to reach Easter Island from Mangareva in 19 days.
Languages diverge more rapidly than that. Take English for example. If
we could being back to life a man who lived in England one thousand
years ago, we would not be able to understand even one word of what he
says. It is not even necessary to go back that far. If we travel to

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Not really true. We could understand one word of what the English
1000 AD man says, and who says, other than you, that 80% of the
similarity was present?

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Did Cook measure the words, do a
linguistic study, and then find 80% similarity? Nope.

RL

On Jul 25, 12:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. *Did Cook measure the words, do a
linguistic study, and then find 80% similarity? *Nope.

No. What Cook did was have some-one on board who could speak a closely
related language thus proving a common ancestral origin to all the
islands he visited..

On Jul 25, 9:10*am, George wrote:
On Jul 25, 12:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. *Did Cook measure the words, do a
linguistic study, and then find 80% similarity? *Nope.

No. What Cook did was have some-one on board who could speak a closely
related language thus proving a common ancestral origin to all the
islands he visited..

The issue I had was with the "80%" figure, not the general methodology
of Cook.

RL

On Jul 24, 8:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Not really true. *We could understand one word of what the English
1000 AD man says, and who says, other than you, that 80% of the
similarity was present?


Have you been reading Chaucer again, Phil? I canna understan' 'im
any
better than I can understan' Mr. Scott in Star Trek, or Darby O'Gill.

On Jul 26, 9:21*am, The Master wrote:
On Jul 24, 8:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Not really true. *We could understand one word of what the English
1000 AD man says, and who says, other than you, that 80% of the
similarity was present?

* Have you been reading Chaucer again, Phil? * I canna understan' 'im
any
better than I can understan' Mr. Scott in Star Trek, or Darby O'Gill.

Chaucer is readily understandable by anybody with a modicum of
intelligence. Let me that translate in simple words: YOU do not
understand Chaucer.

Reading Chaucer is like playing over a chess game in long descriptive
notation, the kind without symbols. Such as "In the first move, the
white king pawn moves two squares from its original position to be
five squares over from the right and four squares up from the bottom"
instead of 1.e4.

RL

On Jul 25, 7:21*pm, The Master wrote:
On Jul 24, 8:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Not really true. *We could understand one word of what the English
1000 AD man says, and who says, other than you, that 80% of the
similarity was present?

* Have you been reading Chaucer again, Phil? * I canna understan' 'im
any
better than I can understan' Mr. Scott in Star Trek, or Darby O'Gill.

You seem to be suggesting that Ray Lopez is the same person as Phil
Innes.

I doubt that. Their writing styles are different.

On what do you base this claim?

Having said that, Phil Innes is the perfect person to enter into this
discussion because he is from Cornwall or some place over there and we
can never understand a word of what he says.

Sam Sloan

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On Jul 25, 10:54*pm, samsloan wrote:
On Jul 25, 7:21*pm, The Master wrote:

On Jul 24, 8:38*pm, raylopez99 wrote:

Not really true. *We could understand one word of what the English
1000 AD man says, and who says, other than you, that 80% of the
similarity was present?

* Have you been reading Chaucer again, Phil? * I canna understan' 'im
any
better than I can understan' Mr. Scott in Star Trek, or Darby O'Gill.

You seem to be suggesting that Ray Lopez is the same person as Phil
Innes.

I doubt that. Their writing styles are different.

On what do you base this claim?

Having said that, Phil Innes is the perfect person to enter into this
discussion because he is from Cornwall or some place over there and we
can never understand a word of what he says.

Sam Sloan

http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
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It is difficult to understand why Stan Booz, a/k/a None, keeps doing
this.

On 07/24/2011 08:26 PM, samsloan wrote:
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The Mysteries of Easter Island
by Jean-Michel Schwartz

Foreword by Sam Sloan

Easter Island is famous for its 887 monumental statues. Nobody really
knows who made those statutes, or how or why. New Theories are being
advanced, new studies made and new books published about this all the
time.
Anybody who claims to know the answers to these questions probably
really does not know, or at least not for sure.
Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. Its
closest inhabited neighbor is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 km (1,289 mi) to
the west, with fewer than 100 inhabitants. Easter Island's latitude is
close to that of Caldera, Chile, and it lies 3,510 km (2,180 mi) west
of continental Chile at its nearest point (between Lota and Lebu).
Isla Salas y Gómez, 415 km (258 mi) to the east, is closer but is
uninhabited.
It has been suggested that the pirate Edward Davis or Davies, who
conducted raids in 1680-1688, may have been the first European to
visit Easter Island. The first–recorded European contact with the
island was on April 5 (Easter Sunday), 1722, when Dutch navigator
Jacob Roggeveen visited the island for a week and estimated a
population of 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants.
The most popular theory about the colonization of Easter Island is the
Kon-Tiki Theory advanced by Thor Heyerdahl in his book published in
1947. So much has been said and written about this theory and it has
been so widely publicized that a majority of the general population
believes that it has been proven. However, this theory is bunk. No
qualified researcher takes it seriously.
Thor Heyerdahl's theory is that Easter Island was populated by Native
Americans who sailed from what is now Chile. He claims that the winds
blow to the West and thus the winds could have carried a sail boat
like the Kon-Tiki there.
One problem with this theory is that the Ocean Currents flow in the
opposite direction. A man in a canoe paddling around Tahiti, if he got
lost or swept away by the currents, would go East and might wind up at
Easter Island or in Chile. He could eat fish from the sea along the
way.
This brings up the related question of how did Chile get populated. It
is almost universally agreed that most Native Americans got to America
by crossing what is now the Bering Strait around 14,000 years ago and
over the next thousand years making their way down to the bottom of
South America.
The current wisdom is all Native Americans alive today are descended
from a relative handful of families who crossed the Bering Strait. A
new study of DNA patterns throughout the world suggests that North
America was originally populated by no more than 70 people. Most
experts agree that, around 14,000 years ago, a group of humans crossed
the land bridge that connected what is now Siberia in Russia with
Alaska. This does not eliminate the possibility that some inhabitants
might have reached here in other ways, but did not survive until
today.
Although that is how most Native Americans got here, there remains the
possibility that a few of them got here in other ways. If Easter
Island was reached by small boat from Polynesia, as almost all
researchers now believe, then by the same route they could have and
probably would have researched Chile too.
This debate goes on and on and will probably never be completely
solved in our lifetimes.
Easter island is about 24.6 km (15.3 mi) long by 12.3 km (7.6 mi) at
its widest point; its overall shape is triangular. It has an area of
163.6 square kilometres (63.2 sq mi), and a maximum altitude of 507
meters (1,663 ft). There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at
Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but
no permanent streams or rivers.
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island range from 300
to 1200 A.D., approximately coinciding with the arrival of the first
settlers in Hawaii.
I personally believe that, while Easter Island may have been colonized
in that time range, it was far less isolated than is otherwise
believed. I believe that there was regular commerce and interchange of
peoples with both Tahiti and Chile even in relatively recent but pre-
Columbian times. I believe that people have been regularly traveling
back and forth two thousand miles by canoe, even though it seems
impossible.
I base this on the fact that when the Captain James Cook arrived in
Easter Island in 1774, one of his crew members, a Polynesian from Bora
Bora, was able to communicate with the Rapa Nui. The language most
similar to Rapa Nui is Mangarevan with an 80% similarity in
vocabulary. A 1999 voyage with reconstructed Polynesian boats was able
to reach Easter Island from Mangareva in 19 days.
Languages diverge more rapidly than that. Take English for example. If
we could being back to life a man who lived in England one thousand
years ago, we would not be able to understand even one word of what he
says. It is not even necessary to go back that far. If we travel to
Leeds, England or even to Birmingham, we understand nothing of what
they are saying.
The fact that the Easter Islanders could be understand by a man from
an island more than two thousand miles away shows that there was
relatively recent exchanges between those islanders.
With all the books having been written about Easter Island, why have I
chosen to reprint “The Mysteries of Easter Island” by Jean-Michel
Schwartz?
The answer is I like the book and it is hard to find. It is the only
book I have found that adequately explains how the giant statues were
created and how they were transported. Basically, the statues were cut
from the lips of the three volcanoes on the island. This still does
not answer the question of how they were brought down to the water's
edge.
I first read this book a dozen years ago. When I tried to find it
again recently, I could not. Eventually, I bought all the books about
Easter Island until finally I found it. The main problem was that
there are so many books about Easter Island and some of them bear
exactly the same name, “Mysteries of Easter Island”.
This book was first published by Robert Laffont in France in 1973 as
Nouvelles recherches sur l'île de Pâques. Transport des statues -
déchiffrement de l'écriture rongo-rongo.
It was translated into English and first published in the USA in 1975.
Jean-Michael Schwartz also wrote another book in 1979. This one is
entitled “Secrets of Easter Island”. However, “The Mysteries of Easter
Island” and “Secrets of Easter Island” are exactly the same book. Not
a singe word inside the books is changed. They are just copies of each
other. The only difference is the title and the picture on the front
cover.

Sam Sloan
San Rafael California
July 24, 2011

http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=4871873072

Sam,
I've got another book for you.
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond.
nicely outlined he
http://greatchange.org/footnotes-ove...er_island.html

Wooden rollers are the easiest way to get heavy items to move
a sizable distance. When you've cut down all of your trees for
whatever reason you don't have any more wood rollers and can't
move your statues to the shore. Further, if you have cut
down all your trees you can't build any more canoes to visit
other islands and so on and so on. These are facts and everything
else is conjecture. Easter Islanders are part of the
Austronesian/Polynesian expansion and came from points west.
Thor Hyerdahl's Kon Tiki theory of Native Americans populating
the Pacific Islands is not supported by any facts including
language affinities.

On Jul 25, 7:28*am, VtSkier wrote:
On 07/24/2011 08:26 PM, samsloan wrote:









http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=4871873072

The Mysteries of Easter Island
by Jean-Michel Schwartz

Foreword by Sam Sloan

Easter Island is famous for its 887 monumental statues. Nobody really
knows who made those statutes, or how or why. New Theories are being
advanced, new studies made and new books published about this all the
time.
Anybody who claims to know the answers to these questions probably
really does not know, or at least not for sure.
Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. Its
closest inhabited neighbor is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 km (1,289 mi) to
the west, with fewer than 100 inhabitants. Easter Island's latitude is
close to that of Caldera, Chile, and it lies 3,510 km (2,180 mi) west
of continental Chile at its nearest point (between Lota and Lebu).
Isla Salas y Gómez, 415 km (258 mi) to the east, is closer but is
uninhabited.
It has been suggested that the pirate Edward Davis or Davies, who
conducted raids in 1680-1688, may have been the first European to
visit Easter Island. The first–recorded European contact with the
island was on April 5 (Easter Sunday), 1722, when Dutch navigator
Jacob Roggeveen visited the island for a week and estimated a
population of 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants.
The most popular theory about the colonization of Easter Island is the
Kon-Tiki Theory advanced by Thor Heyerdahl in his book published in
1947. So much has been said and written about this theory and it has
been so widely publicized that a majority of the general population
believes that it has been proven. However, this theory is bunk. No
qualified researcher takes it seriously.
Thor Heyerdahl's theory is that Easter Island was populated by Native
Americans who sailed from what is now Chile. He claims that the winds
blow to the West and thus the winds could have carried a sail boat
like the Kon-Tiki there.
One problem with this theory is that the Ocean Currents flow in the
opposite direction. A man in a canoe paddling around Tahiti, if he got
lost or swept away by the currents, would go East and might wind up at
Easter Island or in Chile. He could eat fish from the sea along the
way.
This brings up the related question of how did Chile get populated. It
is almost universally agreed that most Native Americans got to America
by crossing what is now the Bering Strait around 14,000 years ago and
over the next thousand years making their way down to the bottom of
South America.
The current wisdom is all Native Americans alive today are descended
from a relative handful of families who crossed the Bering Strait. A
new study of DNA patterns throughout the world suggests that North
America was originally populated by no more than 70 people. Most
experts agree that, around 14,000 years ago, a group of humans crossed
the land bridge that connected what is now Siberia in Russia with
Alaska. This does not eliminate the possibility that some inhabitants
might have reached here in other ways, but did not survive until
today.
Although that is how most Native Americans got here, there remains the
possibility that a few of them got here in other ways. If Easter
Island was reached by small boat from Polynesia, as almost all
researchers now believe, then by the same route they could have and
probably would have researched Chile too.
This debate goes on and on and will probably never be completely
solved in our lifetimes.
Easter island is about 24.6 km (15.3 mi) long by 12.3 km (7.6 mi) at
its widest point; its overall shape is triangular. It has an area of
163.6 square kilometres (63.2 sq mi), and a maximum altitude of 507
meters (1,663 ft). There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at
Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but
no permanent streams or rivers.
Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island range from 300
to 1200 A.D., approximately coinciding with the arrival of the first
settlers in Hawaii.
I personally believe that, while Easter Island may have been colonized
in that time range, it was far less isolated than is otherwise
believed. I believe that there was regular commerce and interchange of
peoples with both Tahiti and Chile even in relatively recent but pre-
Columbian times. I believe that people have been regularly traveling
back and forth two thousand miles by canoe, even though it seems
impossible.
I base this on the fact that when the Captain James Cook arrived in
Easter Island in 1774, one of his crew members, a Polynesian from Bora
Bora, was able to communicate with the Rapa Nui. The language most
similar to Rapa Nui is Mangarevan with an 80% similarity in
vocabulary. A 1999 voyage with reconstructed Polynesian boats was able
to reach Easter Island from Mangareva in 19 days.
Languages diverge more rapidly than that. Take English for example. If
we could being back to life a man who lived in England one thousand
years ago, we would not be able to understand even one word of what he
says. It is not even necessary to go back that far. If we travel to
Leeds, England or even to Birmingham, we understand nothing of what
they are saying.
The fact that the Easter Islanders could be understand by a man from
an island more than two thousand miles away shows that there was
relatively recent exchanges between those islanders.
With all the books having been written about Easter Island, why have I
chosen to reprint “The Mysteries of Easter Island” by Jean-Michel
Schwartz?
The answer is I like the book and it is hard to find. It is the only
book I have found that adequately explains how the giant statues were
created and how they were transported. Basically, the statues were cut
from the lips of the three volcanoes on the island. This still does
not answer the question of how they were brought down to the water's
edge.
I first read this book a dozen years ago. When I tried to find it
again recently, I could not. Eventually, I bought all the books about
Easter Island until finally I found it. The main problem was that
there are so many books about Easter Island and some of them bear
exactly the same name, “Mysteries of Easter Island”.
This book was first published by Robert Laffont in France in 1973 as
Nouvelles recherches sur l'île de Pâques. Transport des statues -
déchiffrement de l'écriture rongo-rongo.
It was translated into English and first published in the USA in 1975.
Jean-Michael Schwartz also wrote another book in 1979. This one is
entitled “Secrets of Easter Island”. However, “The Mysteries of Easter
Island” and “Secrets of Easter Island” are exactly the same book. Not
a singe word inside the books is changed. They are just copies of each
other. The only difference is the title and the picture on the front
cover.

* * * * * * * * * *Sam Sloan
* * * * * * * * * *San Rafael California
* * * * * * * * * *July 24, 2011

http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=4871873072

Sam,
I've got another book for you.
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond.
nicely outlined hehttp://greatchange.org/footnotes-ove...er_island.html

Wooden rollers are the easiest way to get heavy items to move
a sizable distance. When you've cut down all of your trees for
whatever reason you don't have any more wood rollers and can't
move your statues to the shore. Further, if you have cut
down all your trees you can't build any more canoes to visit
other islands and so on and so on. These are facts and everything
else is conjecture. Easter Islanders are part of the
Austronesian/Polynesian expansion and came from points west.
Thor Hyerdahl's Kon Tiki theory of Native Americans populating
the Pacific Islands is not supported by any facts including
language affinities.

Thank you for linking to this truly excellent article.

However, the book I just reprinted,

http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873072
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=4871873072

The Mysteries of Easter Island by Jean-Michel Schwartz, has a
different theory of how the statues were created.

There are three volcanoes on Easter Island. He says the statues were
cut from the top edges of the volcanic craters. They were cut standing
up, so there was no need to erect them later. Then ropes made from the
vines that grow naturally were wrapped around them. Then by pulling
these ropes back and forth in a circular fashion, they were able to
shimmy them down to the water side inch by inch. It took them a long
time to do this, months or possibly years but it required only a few
men, not hundreds.

If a statue fell down, it was simply abandoned. It was too difficult
if not impossible to stand them up again.

This theory should be fairly east to prove or disprove with today's
technology. I have never seen it expressed in any other book.

Sam Sloan

Most of the statues on Easter Island were in fact abandoned and never
made it to their intended destinations.