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Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

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Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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(via TumbleOn)

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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

kiwianaroha

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

theopensea

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

thegirlthewolfate

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

kammartinez

ALL OF THIS.

Would also like to add that attributing “alien help” to almost all of ancient humanity’s achievements is absolutely 100% racist, because it suggests that humans - especially not-white humans - were too dumb to figure out things like advanced astronomy and complex mathematics on their own, because they would’ve needed the help of White Men to Achieve Such Great Things.

walksoftlytay

^^^^

fun-ta-mental

Smh!!

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peinted

absence and lack of communication makes the heart idealize a person and subconsciously twist one’s perception of them into something greater than they really are

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The Internet is amazing

cumnog

“According to Billboard, on-demand audio streams of Nelly’s 2002 smash single have sky-rocketed by 219 percent following the initial news of his tax troubles.”