Well, it turns out the game did briefly touch upon the statues during the tunnel sidequest involving Alpha Onyx. Just that nothing about the statues being buried was stated.
I have thought of this while playing Brilliant Diamond and being distracted by the Grand Underground: Hisui might have had a custom of burying Pokemon statues, possibly beginning at the end of the game that takes place in when the cooperation between humans and Pokemon began. For what reason...
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