Project updates and links to related information
Featured in Revista de Arqueología
The EISP Conservation Initiative and excavation of two statues in Rano Raraku is featured in the cover story of Revista de Arqueología, No 368. Read the full text at Revista de Arqueología.
Featured in Américas Magazine
The conservation efforts surrounding the world famous monuments of Easter Island are featured in the Américas, Nov/Dec 2011 issue. Read the full text at Saving the Moai by Chris Hardman (pdf).
Upcoming Events
January 5-8
113th AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting
1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
http://archaeological.org/
Dr. Van Tilburg will be presenting the latest field report on the AIA Conservation Initiative. Registration required.
The Secrets of Easter Island
The more we learn about the remote island from archaeologists and researchers, the more intriguing it becomes
By Paul Trachtman
Smithsonian magazine, March 2002
Feature in Archaeology Magazine
The laser scanning of Hoa Hakananai’a is featured in the cover story of Archaeology, May/June 2009 issue. Read the full text on the magazine website.
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island
Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Order a signed copy from EISP: $20
“The archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg’s Among Stone Giants is a copiously researched biography of Katherine Routledge…In Van Tilburg’s hands, Routledge is as striking an enigma as the island she studied….there’s more than enough drama to be had [in Routledge’s] admirable achievements and poignant setbacks. Van Tilburg’s background as an archaeologist and her long familiarity with Easter Island prove essential to her understanding of the Routledges’ accomplishments….”
—The New York Times Book Review, June 17, 2003
Hardcover, 368 pages
16 pages of photographs
ISBN: 0-743-24480-X
Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places
Volume II: Illustrated Examples
Edited by Rand Eppich and Amel Chabbi
Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2007.
Mapping Features
by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, and Alice Hom
in Section 2: Base Recording: Gathering Information. Pages 31–36. [pdf, 8.9MB]
EISP contributed a case study on GPS mapping of features in Rano Raraku Quarry to this handbook of documentation techniques.
Main publication page: The Getty Conservation Institute
Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology, and Culture
by Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Foreword by John Mack
Hardcover, 232 pages
30 color and 124 B&W illustrations
Smithsonian Press (October 1995)
Order a signed copy from EISP: $80
Since Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was first “discovered” nearly 300 years ago, its people, culture and monolithic statues have been seen as an unsolvable riddle. At the heart of the so-called mystery stand the gigantic moai. How were they moved? What do they mean? Over more than twelve years, nearly 1000 statues have been measured, drawn and photgraphed by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and a team of colleagues. In this ground-breaking title, the author draws on the insights that have been gained, to examine Rapa Nui prehistory in the context of new understandings of ecology and culture.