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/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/1500/ https://www.eisp.org/1500/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 01:48:32 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1500 (Left) A composite overhead image of moai C-7 in the Rano Raraku interior quarry. Separate digital photographs were taken from a camera mounted on a hand-held boom hoisted over the moai. An attached video monitor acted as a remote viewfinder. These photos were then composited together in Photoshop to make the overhead view. The context […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1500/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1358/ https://www.eisp.org/1358/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:57:03 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1358 GPS Mapping of Rano Raraku Quarry August 2006 Field Team Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ph.D. Project Director Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Project Co-director Alice Hom, Database Manager Matthew Bates, Project Surveyor Henry Debey, Image Catalog Editor Goals and Methods Within Rano Raraku archaeological zone, the published maps (Cristino et al. 1981) indicate 680 localized “features” and […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1358/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1355/ https://www.eisp.org/1355/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:48:59 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1355 GPS Mapping of Rano Raraku Interior July-August 2004 Field Crew Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, UCLA, Project Director Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, EISP Co-Director Matthew Bates, Surveyor Alice Hom, EISP Database Manager Debra Isaac, Graphic Artist Bill White, Photographer Goals and Methods Maps and images created by Chilean governmental agencies over three decades were reviewed in […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1355/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1351/ https://www.eisp.org/1351/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:44:29 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1351 Rano Raraku Interior Mapping Project July-August 2003 Field Crew Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, UCLA, Project Director Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Project Co-Director Dr. Peter Boniface, California Polytechnic University, Project Surveyor Bill White, Photographer, Videographer Alana Perlin, Graphic Artist, UCLA Rock Art Archive Susana Nahoe, Project Intern Cristián Silva, Project Intern Goals and Methods The specific […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1351/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1346/ https://www.eisp.org/1346/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:40:07 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1346 Rano Raraku Interior Mapping Project October-November 2002 Field Crew Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, UCLA, Project Director Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Project Co-Director Gordon Hull, UCLA Rock Art Archive Alice Hom, EISP Database Manager Debra Isaac, Graphic Artist, UCLA Rock Art Archive Bill White, Photographer Goals and Methods The specific goal of this field season was […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1346/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1341/ https://www.eisp.org/1341/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:34:28 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1341 Rano Raraku Interior Mapping Project July-August 2002 Field Team Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, UCLA, Project Director Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Project Co-Director Dr. Peter Boniface, California Polytechnic University, Project Surveyor Goals and Methods The specific goal of the survey in Section C was to map every statue or possible statue and each quarry found within […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1341/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/756/ https://www.eisp.org/756/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 05:51:16 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=756 Latitude 27.1247222, Longitude 109.2886111 Introduction Dynamic geographic data sets are essential to describing and interpreting the interaction of natural and human phenomena on the Rapa Nui cultural landscape. During field work conducted in Rano Raraku interior between 2005 and 2007, and in the laboratory, we examined moai presence in terms of regional territories within Rano […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/756/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/3126/ https://www.eisp.org/3126/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 19:47:20 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=3126 Reviewing the copious literature dealing with Easter Island, many conflicting figures for the land surface of the island are published. All of them are clearly inaccurate. Given that many colleagues and interested people consult about this problem, we are now updating this information using the best available maps and techniques. The surface of Easter Island […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/3126/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/3121/ https://www.eisp.org/3121/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 04:27:52 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=3121 More information about the Atlas of Easter Island Statues to come!]]> https://www.eisp.org/3121/feed/ 0