With how they are rushing through things now, I wouldn't be surprised is that is the last we see of the statue. I imagine that they will explain verbally that "the others" are descendants of an ancient race who has been on the island for a very long time, and the statue was their handiwork.

I wonder how many toes Ricardo Alpert has?

This out of order story telling method gets confusing. I wonder where Ben is at this time (LeFleur's "three years later" time). It is 1975, and since Ben was born sometime in the early nineteen sixties, he would be a teenager by this time. So I wonder if he is on the island yet, or if he is yet to arrive.

Another thing that is kind of weird, Richard always looks the same, no matter what time period he pops up in, same kind of clothing, same hair cut. However, when he meets Ben for the first time, he has kind of a shaggy hair thing going on, and is wearing tattered season-two-others style clothing.

I figured this was because the "hostiles" desguised themselves as primitives when appearing before the DHAMRA initiative much like they did to the castaways. However, in the last episode Richard had no problem showing up clean cut and nicely dressed in the barracks for all to see in the last episode.