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/1324/ https://www.eisp.org/1324/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 10:09:57 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1324 In 1987 we were drawn to Belau by a statue described by archaeologist Douglas Osborne, who had worked there in the 1960s, as “strikingly like those of Easter Island.” Although he said it was “more conventionalized” and “less naturalistic” than Easter Island sculpture, the possibility that it resembled moai was intriguing, and we undertook eight […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1324/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1580/ https://www.eisp.org/1580/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:44:32 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1580 ]]> https://www.eisp.org/1580/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1328/ https://www.eisp.org/1328/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 09:13:40 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1328 Most scholars and fieldworkers have reported that Belauans today have very little interest in the monolithic stone carvings and that, in the opinions of many islanders, foreigners surely must have carved them. The experience we had with the Belau Monolithic Sculpture Project in 1987, however, told us something quite different. We found that many Belauans […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1328/feed/ 0