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/2223/ https://www.eisp.org/2223/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 22:53:37 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=2223 ]]> https://www.eisp.org/2223/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1222/ https://www.eisp.org/1222/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 06:32:30 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1222 ]]> https://www.eisp.org/1222/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 https://www.eisp.org/994/ https://www.eisp.org/994/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:24:02 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=994 ]]> https://www.eisp.org/994/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/983/ https://www.eisp.org/983/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:57:02 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=983 Moai RR-002-077 Located on the slopes of Exterior Rano Raraku Quarry, this moai measures 397 cm (exposed) above ground and has unique attributes including a bas-relief makemake ‘mask’ or face carved onto the left shoulder and a pattern of incised lines decorating the neck. Possible red pigment is also on the neck and on the […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/983/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/66/ https://www.eisp.org/66/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:52:00 +0000 http://www.alicehom.com/wp/?p=66 In the summer of 1981, Jo Anne Van Tilburg was a member of the University of California Research Expeditions Program (UREP). Led by Georgia Lee and conducted under the auspices of Chile’s Council of Monuments, the goal of the six-week volunteer project was to investigate the nature and extent of the island’s corpus of rock art. ]]> https://www.eisp.org/66/feed/ 0 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/4333/ https://www.eisp.org/4333/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 01:12:45 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/?p=4333 Tattoo (tatau) is an ancient Polynesian and Micronesian practice that is a deeply traditional part of social, economic, and aesthetic life.  Tattoo is the permanent adornment of the human body. Tattoo vividly demonstrates status, rank and individual courage through the ability to bear pain. Tattoo artists were respected and honored, and they practiced their profession […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/4333/feed/ 0 https://www.eisp.org/1365/ https://www.eisp.org/1365/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 08:02:13 +0000 http://www.eisp.org/wp/?p=1365 Like Rano Raraku, Rano Kau, in the western, higher ranked district of [Ko] Tu’u also contains a freshwater lake 1 km in diameter. In sharp contrast, however, Rano Kau is formed not of tuff but of locally quarried dark gray to black basalt and related types of smooth, dense and hard volcanic rocks. Rano Raraku […]]]> https://www.eisp.org/1365/feed/ 0