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Sep 12, 2020 · We visited Easter Island in Sept 2017 and have compiled this list of best Easter Island books for the curious traveler. Easter Island is an enigmatic place. The mysterious stone statues carved and erected by the Rapa Nui people have enthralled people since their discovery.
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Jun 21, 2011 · Kindle Edition. The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of ...
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Dec 16, 2019 · The findings are reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science. For hundreds of years, they stood watch in silence: the 'moai', a mysterious league of almost 1,000 carved monolithic statues, erected across the isolated landscape of Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
By far the greatest part of the book tells of the work on Easter Island, where the expedition investigated the giant stone statues ( moai ), the quarries at Rano Raraku and Puna Pau, the ceremonial village of Orongo on Rano Kau, as well as many other sites throughout the island.
- Thor Heyerdahl
- 1957
Oct 30, 2012 · Hunt (anthropology, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa) and Lipo (anthropology, California State Univ., Long Beach) reconsider the mysteries of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), with its monumental statues—moai—that have generated fascination since the island's European discovery in 1722.
- 9781.6B
- 10/30/2012
- 256
- Catapult
Jan 1, 2000 · Caroline Arnold explains how archeologists and other scientists and scholars have pieced together a history of Easter Island by studying its natural resources, listening to family stories and Polynesian legends, and examining the statues and other clues the people left behind.
- Caroline Arnold
Oct 19, 2022 · Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai....
