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Easter Island
Birdman or Birdbrain About the Show When The Book pages transform into rongorongo script, Freddi, Samantha, and Fred transport back to 1765 to Rapa Nui (a.k.a. Easter Island) and face to face with a 15-ton moai! It’s just another day at Curriculum Connections the beach as the trio jump off cliffs, swim through shark infested • ancient civilizations waters to the Birdman’s Island (Motu Nui), oh, and try to find The Book • archeology • Easter Island along the way! Subject Areas Introduction • language arts • social studies Historical mysteries are a sure-fire way to get students interested in the past. Studying the origins and meaning of the giant stone statues of Rapa Nui give students a wonderful opportunity to delve into a civilization that remains an enigma. Historical Background Rapa Nui, an island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, is more than 1,000 miles away from the nearest inhabited island, Pitcairn Island. Rapa Nui received the name Easter Island from Admiral Jacob Roggeveen, who sailed a trade ship for the Dutch West India Company. He landed on the island on Easter Day, 1722, and named it in honor of the holiday. It is now a Chilean territory. A mere 66 square miles, Rapa Nui was inhabited for thousands of years by Polynesians who raised crops, built houses, and worshipped gods in nearly complete isolation from the rest of the world. They also created enormous stone statues, moai, that still stand. These statues are thought to honor sacred chiefs and gods and may have emerged out of friendly competitions between groups of craftsmen. -
(1974) Isles of the Pacific
ISLES OF THE PACIFIC- I The Coming of the Polynesians By KENNETH P. EMORY, Ph.D. HE ISLES of the South Seas bathed in warm sunlight in the midst of the vast Pacific-were Tsurprise enough to their European discoverers. But more astonishingly, they were inhabited! And the tall, soft featured, lightly clad people who greet ed the Europeans possessed graces they could only admire, and skills at which they could but wonder. How had these brown-skinned peo ple reached the many far-flung islands of Polynesia? When? And whence had they come? The mystery lingered for centuries. Not until 1920-the year I joined the staff of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu-was a concerted search for answers launched, with the First Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference, held in the Hawaiian capital. In subsequent years scientists fanned out over the Pacific to salvage whatever knowledge of their past the Polynesians retained. The field was vast, for Polynesia sprawls in a huge triangle, from Hawaii in the north to Easter Island in the southeast to New Zealand in the southwest. I have taken part in many of these expe Nomads of the wind, shipmates drop sail ditions from Mangareva to outlying Ka as they approach Satawal in the central pingamarangi, some 5,000 miles away Carolines. The past of their seafaring and beyond the Polynesian Triangle. ancestors, long clouded by mystery and After the Tenth Pacific Science Con gress in 1961, scientists from New 732 NICHOLAS DEVORE Ill legend, now comes dramatically to light author, dean of Polynesian archeologists, after more than half a century of research. -
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Bibliography Many books were read and researched in the compilation of Binford, L. R, 1983, Working at Archaeology. Academic Press, The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology: New York. Binford, L. R, and Binford, S. R (eds.), 1968, New Perspectives in American Museum of Natural History, 1993, The First Humans. Archaeology. Aldine, Chicago. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco. Braidwood, R 1.,1960, Archaeologists and What They Do. Franklin American Museum of Natural History, 1993, People of the Stone Watts, New York. Age. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco. Branigan, Keith (ed.), 1982, The Atlas ofArchaeology. St. Martin's, American Museum of Natural History, 1994, New World and Pacific New York. Civilizations. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco. Bray, w., and Tump, D., 1972, Penguin Dictionary ofArchaeology. American Museum of Natural History, 1994, Old World Civiliza Penguin, New York. tions. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco. Brennan, L., 1973, Beginner's Guide to Archaeology. Stackpole Ashmore, w., and Sharer, R. J., 1988, Discovering Our Past: A Brief Books, Harrisburg, PA. Introduction to Archaeology. Mayfield, Mountain View, CA. Broderick, M., and Morton, A. A., 1924, A Concise Dictionary of Atkinson, R J. C., 1985, Field Archaeology, 2d ed. Hyperion, New Egyptian Archaeology. Ares Publishers, Chicago. York. Brothwell, D., 1963, Digging Up Bones: The Excavation, Treatment Bacon, E. (ed.), 1976, The Great Archaeologists. Bobbs-Merrill, and Study ofHuman Skeletal Remains. British Museum, London. New York. Brothwell, D., and Higgs, E. (eds.), 1969, Science in Archaeology, Bahn, P., 1993, Collins Dictionary of Archaeology. ABC-CLIO, 2d ed. Thames and Hudson, London. Santa Barbara, CA. Budge, E. A. Wallis, 1929, The Rosetta Stone. Dover, New York. Bahn, P. -
Moai of Easter Island: a Quest for Ideal Proportions Paul Horley Chernivsi National University, Ukraine
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 6 2006 Moai of Easter Island: A Quest for Ideal Proportions Paul Horley Chernivsi National University, Ukraine Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Horley, Paul (2006) "Moai of Easter Island: A Quest for Ideal Proportions," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol20/iss1/6 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Horley: Moai of Easter Island MOAI OF EASTER ISLAND: A QUEST FOR IDEAL PROPORTIONS Paul Horley Chernivsi National University, Ukraine HE MONOLITHIC SCULPT RE OF Ea ter I land is a key A we know, the head, in general, composes 1/3-1/2 Ta pect of its unique cultural heritage. Moai played a very (i.e. 0.33-0.5) of the total height of the moai (Van Tilburg important role in the prehistoric Rapanui society. The cere 1994: 131); other ource report the proportionality coeffi monial platfonns adorned with the stone giants were sacred cient 2/5 = 0.4 (Skj01 voId 1961 :346) and 3/7 = 0.429 places where the supernatural world met the world of hu (Metraux 1940:293). -
Chile and Argentina Easter Island Ext Feb2022 Updatedjun2020
E CHE SEM A N CHEESEMANS’ ECOLOGY SAFARIS E S C 2059 Camden Ave. #419 ’ O San Jose, CA 95124 USA L (800) 527-5330 (408) 741-5330 O G [email protected] Y S cheesemans.com A FA RIS Easter Island Extension Mysterious Moai February 23 to 28, 2022 Moai © Far South Expeditions EXTENSION OVERVIEW Join us on an exciting extension where you’ll stroll amongst the monolithic moai statues of Easter Island, carved from basalt lava by Polynesian settlers centuries ago. Visit abandoned settlements, explore ceremonial centers, and take a boat ride for a different perspective of the island, where you might see petroglyphs painted high on the cliffs above. Come along for an unforgettable journey of exploration into the history of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). HIGHLIGHTS • Learn about Easter Island’s moai statues and the tangata manu competition where rulership of Easter Island was defined through a ritual race for a bird egg. TRIP OPTION: This is a post-trip extension to our Chile and Argentina trip from February 11 to 24, 2022 (http://cheesemans.com/trips/chile-argentina-feb2022). Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris Page 1 of 6 Updated: June 2020 LEADER: Josefina ‘Josie’ Nahoe Mulloy. DAYS: Adds 3 days to the main trip to total 17 days, including estimated travel time. GROUP SIZE: 8 (minimum of 4 required). COST: $2,230 per person, double occupancy, not including airfare, singles extra. See the Costs section on page 4. Date Description Accommodation Meals Feb 23 Fly from Punta Arenas to Santiago from our Chile Santiago Airport D and Argentina trip. -
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 5 2006 New Data from Poike (Rapa Nui - Easter Island): Dynamic Architecture of a Series of Ahu Nicolas Cauwe Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels Dirk Huyge Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels Johnny De Meulemeester Ghent University, Belgium Morgan De Dapper Ghent University, Belgium Dominique Coupe Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Cauwe, Nicolas; Huyge, Dirk; De Meulemeester, Johnny; De Dapper, Morgan; Coupe, Dominique; Claes, Wouter; and De Poorter, Alexandra (2006) "New Data from Poike (Rapa Nui - Easter Island): Dynamic Architecture of a Series of Ahu," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol20/iss1/5 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. New Data from Poike (Rapa Nui - Easter Island): Dynamic Architecture of a Series of Ahu Authors Nicolas Cauwe, Dirk Huyge, Johnny De Meulemeester, Morgan De Dapper, Dominique Coupe, Wouter Claes, and Alexandra De Poorter This research paper is available in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/ rnj/vol20/iss1/5 Cauwe et al.: Dynamic Architecture of a Series of Ahu NEW DATA FROM POlKE (RAPA NUl - EASTER ISLAND): DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE OF A SERIES OF AHU* l l Nicola Cauwe , Dirk Huyge , Johnny De Meulemeeste?, 3 l Morgan De Dapper , Dominique Coupi, Wouter Clae I andAlexandra De Poorter I TROD CTIO other hand, has largely collap cd. -
Supplemental Readings for Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol
Supplemental Readings for Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 29, No. 1 COMPILED BY LEWIS BORCK Bahti, Thomas N. 1949 A Largo-Gallina Pit House and Two Surface Structures. El Palacio 56, no. 2: 52–59. Bain, James, Brian Blanchard, Bruce Campbell, Jr. Sinclair Hatch, John Hayden, Mary Lu Moore, Cheryl Muceus, et al. 1993 The Teacher, the Ghosts and the Snake: Preliminary Results of Eight Field Seasons at Rattlesnake Ridge. Manuscript on file at the Ghost Ranch Museum. Blumenthal, E. H. 1940 An Introduction to Gallina Archaeology. New Mexico Anthropologist 4, no. 1: 10–13. Borck, Lewis 2012 Patterns of Resistance: Violence, Migration, and Trade in the Gallina Heartland. Master’s Thesis, University of Arizona. In press They Sought a Country: Gallina Resistance and Identity in the New Mexican Highlands. Social Identity in Frontier and Borderland Communities of the North American Southwest, edited by Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Bremer, J. Michael 2013 The Big Picture: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Gallina Phase Archaeology in Northern New Mexico Along the Continental Divide. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, edited by Bradley J. Vierra. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Brugge, David M. 1983 Navajo Prehistory and History to 1850. Handbook of North American Indians, 489–501. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Ceram, C. W. 1971 Towers of Silence. The First American, 272–78. Constan, Connie 2011 Ceramic Resource Selection and Social Violence in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico. -
Explora Rapa Nui І Trekkings
RAPA NUI Explorations explora Rapa Nui І Trekkings T2 Ara O Te Moai The Moai quarry T3 Mahatua Ovahe The fifteen Type: Half day Moai Duration: 3 h Type: Half day Distance: 4,5 km / 2,7 miles Duration: 3 h 30 min Ascent: 65 meters / 208 feet Distance: 6 km / 3,6 miles Description: We leave the hotel by Ascent: 10 meters / 32 feet van towards Hanga Te Tenga, where Description: We leave the hotel TREKKINGS we visit a group of moais that were by van towards Ahu Tongariki, a abandoned during their transport. platform with 15 fully preserved We then walk along the Ara O Te moais. This platform, or Ahu, Our hikes have been designed for travelers Moai, a trail that was used by the is the island’s largest and on its with different interests and abilities. They Rapa Nui people to transport moais. ground floor we will be able to spot vary in length and difficulty, which is Here we will spot some statues that some stone petroglyphs. We then why we recommend you always seek our were abandoned as they were being border the coastline and admire guides’ advice when deciding if a particular transported and others that were panoramic views of the ocean’s exploration suits you. simply never finished. Then we will shifting blue and turquoise colors, reach Ranu Raraku National Park, fishing coves with local inhabitants, the quarry where all these statues and numerous archaeological sites. were carved, and we will enter the Finally we will walk to Ovahe, a Easy crater. -
When the Earth Trembled, the Statues Fell Edmundo Edwards
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 10 Article 1 Issue 1 March 1996 1996 When the Earth Trembled, the Statues Fell Edmundo Edwards Raul Marchetti Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Edwards, Edmundo and Marchetti, Raul (1996) "When the Earth Trembled, the Statues Fell," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol10/iss1/1 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Edwards and Marchetti: When the Earth Trembled, the Statues Fell When the Earth Trembled, the Statues Fell Edmundo Edwards, Raul Marchetti, Leopoldo Dominichelti and Oscar Gonzales-Ferran On July 8, 1987 at II: 50: 14.9, Easter Island experienced topknot. He thought this event could have occurred "perhaps a major earthquake with a magnitude of Ms=6.3, succeeded by an earthquake" (Forster 1982: 465). Assumptions that by several tremors \ hich measured up to Ms=5.9. The some kind of volcanic catastrophe could ha e been the cause epicenter was located at 26.999 south latitude and 108.285 for the toppling ofthe statues was later adopted by A. -
Early Settlement Ofrapa Nui (Easter Island)
Early Settlement ofRapa Nui (Easter Island) HELENE MARTINSSON-WALLIN AND SUSAN J. CROCKFORD RAPA NUl, THE SMALL REMOTE ISLAND that constitutes the easternmost corner of the Polynesian triangle, was found and populated long before the Europeans "discovered" this part ofthe world in 1722. The long-standing questions concern ing this remarkable island are: who were the first to populate the island, at what time was it populated, and did the Rapa Nui population and development on the island result from a single voyage? Over the years there has been much discussion, speculation, and new scientific results concerning these questions. This has resulted in several conferences and numerous scientific and popular papers and monographs. The aim ofthis paper is to present the contemporary views on these issues, drawn from the results of the last 45 years of archaeological research on the island (Fig. 1), and to describe recent fieldwork that Martinsson-Wallin completed on Rapa Nui. Results from the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Rapa Nui in 1955 1956 suggest that the island was populated as early as c. A.D. 400 (Heyerdahl and Ferdon 1961: 395). This conclusion was drawn from a single radiocarbon date. This dated carbon sample (K-502) was found in association with the so-called Poike ditch on the east side of the island. The sample derived from a carbon con centration on the natural surface, which had been covered by soil when the ditch was dug. The investigator writes the following: There is no evidence to indicate that the fire from which the carbon was derived actually burned at the spot where the charcoal occurred, but it is clear that it was on the surface of the ground at the time the first loads of earth were carried out of the ditch and deposited over it. -
Rapa Nui Case Study Olivia Gustafsson
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History Ethical perspectives and cultural differences regarding repatriation and management of human skeletal remains – Rapa Nui case study Olivia Gustafsson Picture taken by Olivia Gustafsson. Master’s thesis 45 hp in Archaeology Autumn 2020 Main supervisor: Helene Martinsson-Wallin Assistant supervisor: Sabine Sten and Carl-Gösta Ojala Uppsala University Campus Gotland “Do you really need to know everything?” -Mom & Dad Gustafsson, O. 2020. Etiska perspektiv och kulturella skillnader inom repatriering och hantering av mänskliga kvarlevor – en fallstudie på Påskön. Gustafsson, O. 2020. Ethical perspectives and cultural differences regarding repatriation and management of human skeletal remains – Rapa Nui case study. Abstract Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is an island in the Pacific Ocean which has been colonised over a long period of time. Colonisers have exploited the island through looting and trading Rapanui (the Indigenous people) human skeletal remains. Around ninety percent of the stolen Rapanui human skeletal remains have been located at museums and collections around the world on Rapanui initiative. Through the Rapa Nui Ka Haka Hoki Mi Ate Mana Tupuna Repatriation Program the Rapanui are now working on the return of the alienated human skeletal remains to the Island. This thesis is an analysis of semi structured interviews with inhabitants on Rapa Nui involved in repatriation and ethics of human skeletal remains. It has been carried out through a qualitative method using semi-structured interviews -
Rapa Nui Journal 2#3 Fall 1988
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 2 Article 1 Issue 3 Rapa Nui Journal, Fall 2988 1988 Rapa Nui Journal 2#3 Fall 1988 Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation (1988) "Rapa Nui Journal 2#3 Fall 1988," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 2 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol2/iss3/1 This Research Report is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. et al.: Rapa Nui Journal 2#3 Fall 1988 the premier source for current Easter Island events and scientific studies... Special Conservation and Preservation Issue ................................................................................................................................................... .•• ••·••••• g~6ig~~e~;~~~p .•••·.·.: On Other Islands... THE DESTRUCTION .. ··r;iihti~heflC&er.a[FditOr . .•.•• Hxliritiiv~~tlf~k~{· TROUBLE IN PARADISE WROUGHT .... ··············)(EdiiM>·..······ .. PROBLEMS IN POLYNESIAN ROCK ART BY TOURISM ka~·jJJij~J~~;i·~.~·i~~~~~ CONSERVATION ...••••··•••••• •••• A Preliminary Field Report J. Douglas Porteous • tulti~naliie~s1(ift.;.pUbiish~f •four 9mesaYear£6dheJ)eri~ from the 1988 Lana'i Rock Art Project In my bookThe Modernization o/EasterIsland fifoE those interestediliEaster This year's August-September project to rec · Island ari~rolYri~~Ul. ........•............ (porteous 1981), I note that academic interest in ord the rock art of Lana'i, Hawai'i specifically Rapanui has overwhelmingly concentrated upon ti~1~j;JJf6~~~~~7~:~4:n;::· .