Please Don’t Hack the Earlobes Off Easter Island’s Big Stone Heads
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.30.08 | 12:46 PM ET
Photo by Seriously. Archaeologists and others are worried that surging tourism on Easter Island is bad news for the island’s iconic Moais. We noted that, in March, a Finnish tourist cut an earlobe off one head. It turns out that’s but one of many threats to the big stone heads. “More tourism, more deterioration. More visitors, more loss,” an archaeologist tells the AP.
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Julia 06.30.08 | 2:54 PM ET
Best headline I’ve seen today, Jim.
Ling 07.01.08 | 2:01 AM ET
More visitors, more loss. Less visitors, big loss. That archaeologist needs to get his head out of the ivory tower some more.
Chipi 09.10.08 | 12:38 AM ET
“More visitors, more loss. Less visitors, big loss. That archaeologist needs to get his head out of the ivory tower some more.”
Well, from capitalistic point of view…sure, big loss. However, people with the slightest sense of reason, or respect, should know better than go on an cut off a piece of a relic. I mean seriously, what are they thinking?!?! Most importantly, who do they think they are?
Think of it this way:
Your family needs money, and they have really old artifacts that would make a nice museum. You could charge for parking maybe, earn something for the family. Everything goes well, but you get tourists, that think they have the right to not only take some articles but damage the rest in doing so…..
Wouldn’t you be upset????