12-12-2020, 07:43 AM
(12-12-2020, 03:36 AM)confusedseeker Wrote: Hi guys, I'm new here and one of the things that threw me off was when Ra said that the Easter Island heads date back 60k years ago? How can that be? There is no way they would remain intact after that long. Also, carbon dating has now suggested that the heads are only about 1k years old. Could this have been a typo or mistake of some sort? Am I reading this wrong? When dates like this are so far off, it calls into question everything else going on.
I'm with Ra on this one. The statues extend far below ground, but this burial happened in geologic time; they were not buried by the original makers. Examination of the lichens growing on the surface also indicates advanced age. The statues are not made of carbon, so carbon dating would be of little use in dating the statues themselves (and in any case is useful only back to about 35,000 years).