https://www.eisp.org Easter Island Statue Project Official Website Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://www.eisp.org/1795/ https://www.eisp.org/1795/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 04:14:14 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1795 ]]> https://www.eisp.org/1795/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1781/ https://www.eisp.org/1781/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 03:58:19 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1781 Distribution of monolithic statue sites relative to Routledge’s (1919) kin group divisions. Computer drafting by Gordon Hull. From Easter Island Archaeology, Ecology and Culture by Jo Anne Van Tilburg. London: British Museum Press and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.]]> https://www.eisp.org/1781/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1413/ https://www.eisp.org/1413/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 01:16:45 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1413 Following the work of Lynn Lockie in 1984, EISP expanded to include museum collections research. Statues, fragments, pukao and portable stone sculpture have been documented using the same attribute list that was applied to moai in archaeological contexts. Ten intact moai, as well as 55 other stone sculptural objects including moai heads, torsos, pukao and […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1413/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1336/ https://www.eisp.org/1336/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:29:21 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1336 Goals and Methods Major goals from 1990 to 2000 were to further expand our field work beyond the published survey area and to include Ahu Tepeu and a wide variety of interior sites; to add to our database those statues found in museum collections, and to gather comparative data from other Polynesian monolithic statue sites […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1336/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/544/ https://www.eisp.org/544/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 23:51:19 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=544 This is an edited version specifically for publication on this web site of a paper originally published in “Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan” (K. Johnson, ed. 2005) © Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Ted Ralston Our Research Model Our model for Rapa Nui statue carving is Polynesian canoe building. Experimental […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/544/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/553/ https://www.eisp.org/553/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 19:10:45 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=553 Wire diagrams arrived at after photogrammetric work accomplished at Ahu Akivi depict the statistically average statue used in computer simulations and then in our transport experiment. ©1992 EISP/JVT.]]> https://www.eisp.org/553/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/186/ https://www.eisp.org/186/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:46:21 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/?p=186 This is an abbreviated version of a paper originally published in Pacific Art: Persistence, Change and Meaning (Herle et al. eds. Adelaide: Crawford House, 2002 for citations and notes). Real Time and Individual Energy Experimental archaeology is the systematic approach used to test, evaluate and explicate method, technique, assumption, hypothesis and theory at all levels […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/186/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/983/ https://www.eisp.org/983/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:57:02 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=983 Moai RR-002-077 Located on the slopes of Exterior Rano Raraku Quarry, this moai measures 397 cm (exposed) above ground and has unique attributes including a bas-relief makemake ‘mask’ or face carved onto the left shoulder and a pattern of incised lines decorating the neck. Possible red pigment is also on the neck and on the […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/983/feed/ 0