https://www.eisp.org Easter Island Statue Project Official Website Sat, 24 Feb 2024 04:01:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://www.eisp.org/489/ https://www.eisp.org/489/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 00:33:44 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=489 EISP Database Defined The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) database is a comprehensive, interactive, searchable computer-based file of all moai data collected by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and her various field teams during archaeological fieldwork on Rapa Nui and, as well, during her extensive museum studies since 1982. EISP Database Purpose The purpose of EISP […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/489/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1858/ https://www.eisp.org/1858/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 06:44:56 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1858 This is a condensed and edited version of an address given at the Getty Conservation Institute in October, 2004. Introduction The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is an archaeological inventory designed to locate and document every monolithic stone sculpture (moai) on Rapa Nui.  Our research purpose is to amass large quantities of objective data in […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1858/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/1242/ https://www.eisp.org/1242/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:28:13 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1242 Map showing the distribution of documented statues and statue sites to 1989. Archaeological survey quadrangles after the University of Chile. EISP data. Drafting by Curtiss H. Johnson, 1989.]]> https://www.eisp.org/1242/feed/ 0