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Ribs & lean bodies

Prominent ribs in Anatolian sculpture and Rapanui wooden figures.

2 selected records · 0 intake leads. Membership records a resemblance; it does not establish common origin.

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Each row describes one object, surface or textual scope. A dash means “not recorded”, not “absent”. Features across different rows do not establish co-occurrence.

Record & scopeProminent ribsHuman figure
Karahantepe ribbed figuresingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Moai kavakava · historic photographsingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Cultural context

Neolithic Anatolia

Three views of the same ribbed human statue at Karahantepe
Source-linked observation

Karahantepe ribbed figure

Date unresolved

Prominent ribsHuman figure

Ribs are visible; dating and function require their own source records.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • Date unresolved · unresolved
    Neolithic attribution is established in the discovery context; this review has not tied the individual carving to a dated stratum.

2023 Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe discoveries · Karahan Tepe’s figure and the moai kavakava

Marco Restano CC BY-SA 4.0 Image record
Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.

Cultural context

Rapanui traditions

Front and side views of one wooden moai kavakava, historic museum photograph
Source-linked observation

Moai kavakava · historic photograph

Date unresolved

Prominent ribsHuman figure

Ribs are visible; dating and function require their own source records.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • Date unresolved · unresolved
    The exact photographed sculpture’s collection identity and date remain unresolved. Oc,G.T.1730 is an image identifier, not a secure collection year.

Historic front and side views · Oc,G.T.1730 · Moai kavakava · Oc,+.2595 · Karahan Tepe’s figure and the moai kavakava

British Museum photographic collection; reproduction in Lee Paqui’s article Public domain historical photograph; original record linked Image record
Reproduced image downloaded unchanged from https://grahamhancock.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/paquil1_html_m669eb558.jpg . Two views, one object; the individual sculpture identity is unresolved.

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