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Hands across the torso

Similar poses across stone figures; the objects and carving episodes stay separate.

3 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 & scopeHands at torsoBoth arms represented
Urfa Mansingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Hoa Hakananai’a · frontsingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Ponce monolithsingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Cultural context

Neolithic Anatolia

The Balıklıgöl statue, commonly called Urfa Man
Source-linked observation

Urfa Man

Date unresolved

Hands at torsoBoth arms represented

Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • Date unresolved · unresolved
    Early Neolithic attribution is retained as context, but an object-level dating source has not yet been checked for this entry.

Megalithic origins: Göbekli Tepe and Peru · The project’s illustrated comparison archive

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

Cultural context

Rapanui traditions

A basalt moai photographed frontally in a museum: heavy brow, long nose, and slender arms whose hands meet low on the torso
Source-linked observation

Hoa Hakananai’a · front

c. 1000–1200 CE · museum estimate

Hands at torsoBoth arms represented

Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • c. 1000–1200 CE · museum estimate · disputed catalogue estimate
    Museum’s traditional statue date; recent settlement research gives a later island chronology. This range is disputed context, not a direct measurement. Date source

Hoa Hakananai’a: collection record · Moai: objects, histories and Rapanui perspectives · Ancient Rapanui genomes and contact with the Americas

Andreas Praefcke Public domain Image record
Wikimedia Commons server-rendered JPEG at 1280 px wide; not cropped.

Cultural context

Tiwanaku

Ponce monolith at Tiwanaku
Source-linked observation

Ponce monolith

Date unresolved

Hands at torsoBoth arms represented

Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • Date unresolved · unresolved
    An individual monument chronology has not been source-checked in this edition.

The project’s illustrated comparison archive

P. Hughes CC BY 4.0 Image record
Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.

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