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/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