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Books on: easter island statues

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Easter Island: A Stone-Age Civilization of the Pacific

Book by Alfred Metraux; Oxford University Press, 1957

Subjects:

Easter Island

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the giant statues. Captain...visit brought Easter Island the celebrity...the great statues and engraved...How the Easter Islanders Lived...hauled these statues over the...picture of Easter Island as a barren...
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Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts

Book by Steven Roger Fischer; Clarendon Press, 1997

Subjects:

Easter Island--Antiquities, Easter Island--Civilization, Easter Island--Prehistory, Rapanui Language--Writing--History, Rongorongo Script

Collections: History, Entire Library

Rongorongo, Easter Island's enigmatic script and Oceania's only known pre-twentieth-century writing system, is here comprehensively documented for the first time. The author tells the full history of rongorongo's exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment. Pre-missionary traditions ...
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Rongorongo, Easter Island's enigmatic script and Oceania's only known pre-twentieth-century writing system, is here comprehensively documented for the first time. The author tells the full history of rongorongo's exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment. Pre-missionary traditions surrounding rongorongo are described from previously unpublished material. Full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving rongorongo inscriptions are provided, along with detailed photographs of nearly every incised artefact. In over six years of full-time research that took the author from St Petersburg to Easter Island, a wholly new picture of the rongorongo phenomenon has emerged. This book is the definitive study of one of the world's most fascinating and eloquent graphic achievements.
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Southern and Eastern Polynesia

Book by Glynn Barratt; University of British Columbia Press, 1988

Subjects:

Austral Islands (French Polynesia)--Relations--Russia, Easter Island--Relations--Russia, New Zealand--Relations--Russia, Russia--Foreign Relations--1825-1855, Russia--Relations--Easter Island, Russia--Relations--French Polynesia--Austral Islands, Russia--Relations--New Zealand

Collections: History, Entire Library

...they could of the Easter Islanders tattooing, clothing...giant coastal statues. Twenty years...96 The stone statues moai , for which Easter Island has been famous...his remarks on Easter Islands giant statues, long-eared natives...
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Pitcairn's Island

Book by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall; Little, Brown, and Company, 1962

Subjects:

Pitcairn Island

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that desert of wrinkled blue there was no sail, nor any land till the light touched the windy downs of Easter Island, where the statues of Rapa Nuis old kings kept watch along the cliffs. An hour passed as the dawn sped westward another thousand...
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Islands in Time: Island Sociogeography and Mediterranean Prehistory

Book by Mark Patton; Routledge, 1996

Collections: Entire Library

Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation on the development of human communities.Evidence is drawn from a broad range of Mediterranean ...
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Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation on the development of human communities.Evidence is drawn from a broad range of Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia.
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Journal Articles on: easter island statues

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Ahu-The Ceremonial Stone Structures of Easter Island. Analyses of Variation and Interpretation of Meanings

Journal article by Ethan E. Cochrane; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 37, 1998

Subjects:

Ahu, The Ceremonial Stone Structures of Easter Island: Analyses of Variation and Interpretation of Meanings (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Ahu," in the work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), refers to the islands ceremonial...interpretation of the megalithic stone statues or moai that populate the landscape...Spatial Analysis of Platform Ahu on Easter Island. Ph.D. diss. University of Oregon...
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Early Settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Journal article by Helene Martinsson-Wallin, Susan J. Crockford; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 40, 2001

Subjects:

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Research, Easter Island--Research, Hunting and gathering societies, Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Research, Polynesians--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...or the carved statues) Tahai I (A.D...suggest that the island was settled c...contact between the eastern Polynesian Islands...Rapa, voyages to Easter Island and named it...land. He died in Easter Island ... In the second...
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The Maritime Transport of Prehistoric Megaliths in Micronesia

Journal article by Leslie C. Hazell, Scott M. Fitzpatrick; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 41, 2006

Subjects:

Marine transportation--History, Marine transportation--Research, Megalithic monuments--Transportation, Shipping industry--History, Shipping industry--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Bahn, P. and Flenley, J. 1992. Easter Island, Earth Island. Thames and Hudson...G. Lee and F. J. Morin (eds), Easter Island in Pacific Context, pp. 320-25...carving, transporting and erecting Easter Island Statues. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology...
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Ceremonial Stone Structures. the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Marae Complex in the Society Islands, French Polynesia

Journal article by Ethan E. Cochrane; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 37, 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Ceremonial Stone Structures: The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Marae Complex in the Society Islands, French Polynesia (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Ahu," in the work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), refers to the islands ceremonial...interpretation of the megalithic stone statues or moai that populate the landscape...Spatial Analysis of Platform Ahu on Easter Island. Ph.D. diss. University of Oregon...
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Dadaism and the Peace Differend

Journal article by Oliver P. Richmond; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 32, 2007

Subjects:

Dadaism--Analysis, Eclecticism (Philosophy)--Analysis, International relations, Peace--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...of a cult on Easter Island, a remote island...many stone statues on the island...tragedy of Easter Island. The use of...and move the statues denuded the...These famous statues represent not...reflexivity. Easter Island can be read...

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Magazine Articles on: easter island statues

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Easter Island: Enigma of the Stone Statues: According to Modern Science, the Mysteries of Easter Island and Its Brooding Statues Have Been Solved. Alexander Henriksen and Matjaz Krivic Visit This Tiny Speck in the Pacific and Find That Its Riddles Live On

Magazine article by Alexander Henriksen, Matjaz Krivic; Geographical, Vol. 76, March 2004

Subjects:

Easter Island--Description and travel, Easter Island--History, Heyerdahl, Thor--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Statues--Design and construction, Sykes, Bryan--Research

Collections: Entire Library

Easter Island: Enigma of the Stone Statues: According to Modern...the Mysteries of Easter Island and Its Brooding Statues Have Been Solved...300 years since Easter Island was discovered by the West. Of the 887 statues carved, 540 were...
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The Moais of Easter Island

Magazine article by Elizabeth Menson Sio; School Arts, Vol. 98, November 1998

Subjects:

Art teachers--Personal narratives, Easter Island--Art, Wood-carving--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...introduced my sixth grade art class to a lesson about Easter Island. Throughout the year in art we had been globe trotting...Not only did I want to give my students a sense of the statues that are found on the island, I also wanted to share...
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Triumphant Clans of Easter Island

Magazine article by Joyce Gregory Wyels; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, January 2001

Subjects:

Culture--Easter Island, Easter Island--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Rites and ceremonies--Easter Island

Collections: Entire Library

...the look-out for places to reprovision their ships. Easter Island lies in a vast expanse of ocean described less than...represents Rapa Nui to the outside world, its the giant statues known as moai--as many as a thousand of them, some standing...
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The Real Lesson of Easter Island

Magazine article by Ziauddin Sardar; New Statesman, Vol. 137, March 3, 2008

Subjects:

Ancient civilization, Civilization, Ancient, Collapse (Book), Easter Island--History, Polynesians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Tradition

Collections: Entire Library

...people who colonised Easter Island (Rapa Nui), are the prototype...enormous, enigmatic stone statues. Without wood to build...had no predators on the island and its huge palm trees...to build these large statues. Far from being an example...
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Overpopulation and the Fate of Easter Island

Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 16, September 2001

Collections: Entire Library

Overpopulation and the Fate of Easter Island. To the Editor: I discovered...186. He helps to put the amazing statues (moai) in geographic and cultural...if we were hunter-gatherers. Easter Island is a prehistoric example of a...

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Newspaper Articles on: easter island statues

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Easter Island

Newspaper article by Fred J. Eckert; The Washington Times, November 10, 2001

Subjects:

Easter Island

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...At no time was Easter Island inhabited by more...carve these gigantic statues with woefully inadequate...huge strange stone statues of Easter Island? Why? How were they...These majestic stone statues are Easter Islands largest.; H) A Chilean...
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BOUNTY HUNTER; Standing Proud: The Ancient Carved Heads on Remote Easter Island and, Inset, Former TV Reporter Sandy Gall aboard Ship with a Pitcairn Resident

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 1, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Named Easter Island because it was sighted on Easter Day, 1722...mysterious statues. Apart from...had struck Easter Island,leading eventually...1,000-odd statues, whichseems...society the Easter Islandershad...poverty. Many statues were left...from the island came cavorting...
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Digging Up a Medical Gem in the Soil of Easter Island

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 10, 2008

Subjects:

Cardiff University, Tuberous sclerosis--Genetic aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...briefly stopped on the island in 1774. Easter Island is famous for its moai statues more than 880 monolithic stone statues...Although they are often referred to as Easter Island heads, the statues are of heads and complete torsos. Some...
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Out and about This Easter; from Mr Bean to Kylie and Gorillas to Giant Bunnies - There's Plenty to Do This Easter, Including Hunting Down Those All-Important Eggs. by Niki Chesworth

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 28, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...you need a i 1/210 deposit) including Ancient Egypt and Africa. Plus mustsees like the Rosetta Stone and the Easter Island statues. Details at www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk or call 020 7323 8000. Galleries open 10am-5.30pm (till 8.30pm Thursday...
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Easter by Numbers

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 26, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pounds 100m in Easter week alone. 2,300 MILES off the west coast of Chile lies Easter Island, renowned for its huge mysterious carved figures known as Moai statues. 52PER cent of Britons questioned in a recent poll did not know that Easter Sunday...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: easter island statues

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Easter Island

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to stabilization. Easter Island has long been famous...volcanic tufa, the statues are from 10 to 40...Metreaux that the statues are no more than...bones found on the island reveal Polynesian...those connecting Easter Island with Egyptian...
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Inscription

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...exotic mid-Pacific epigraphy of Easter Island . The earliest Chinese inscriptions are...Tell el Amarna ; Bogazkoy ). An Eastern congener of Mesopotamian epigraphy is...those on vases, coins, votive offerings, statues, and the like. In addition, there are...

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