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/6101/ https://www.eisp.org/6101/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2019 23:08:46 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=6101 MANA PRESS BOOK 1 The Iconic Tattooed Man of Easter Island by Adrienne L. Kaeppler & Jo Anne Van Tilburg An impressively tattooed but unnamed Easter Island (Rapa Nui) man appears often in the pages of Pacific Island histories and museum catalogs. The Swedish ethnographer Dr. Knut Hjalmar Stolpe knew him only as Tepano, the […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/6101/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/5662/ https://www.eisp.org/5662/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:16:34 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=5662           Dr. Van Tilburg has contributed a chapter to the book Finding Solutions for Protecting and Sharing Archaeological Heritage Resources. The chapter, entitled “Seeking Solutions: An Archaeological Approach to Conservation of a Threatened Heritage on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)” was co-authored with Christian Fischer, Mónica Bahamondez Prieto and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati.]]> https://www.eisp.org/5662/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/92/ https://www.eisp.org/92/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 02:03:05 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/?p=92 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 […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/92/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/2112/ https://www.eisp.org/2112/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 21:03:53 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=2112 Jo Anne Van Tilburg Order a signed copy from EISP: $20 Inside the Cover “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 […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/2112/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/2103/ https://www.eisp.org/2103/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 20:19:46 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=2103 by Jo Anne Van Tilburg with drawings by Cristián Arévalo Pakarati British Museum Research Publication no. 158. October 2005 In 1868, Hoa Hakananai’a was discovered on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia. From there it was shipped to England on board HMS Topaze, and then offered to Queen Victoria who presented it to the British Museum. […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/2103/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1446/ https://www.eisp.org/1446/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 00:58:50 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1446 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 […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1446/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/419/ https://www.eisp.org/419/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 02:23:23 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/419/419/ All proceeds from direct book sales benefit the Easter Island Statue Project. For credit card orders, please email us at mail@eisp.org to arrange for a Paypal invoice. For check payments: Please print and fill out this form. Write a check or money order for the full amount to Easter Island Statue Preservation. Send payment and […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/419/feed/ 0