The Prehistory Of Rapa Nui Easter Island

Author : Valentí Rull,Christopher Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030911270

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The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Valentí Rull,Christopher Stevenson Pdf

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main features of prehistoric Rapanui culture and their changes; (iii) the deforestation of the island and its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the indigenous biota, (v) the occurrence of climatic shifts and their potential effects on socioecological trends; (vi) the evidence for a cultural and demographic collapse before European contact; and (vii) the influence of Europeans on prehistoric Rapanui society. The book is subdivided into thematic sections and each chapter is written by renowned specialists in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, ethnography, linguistics, ethnobotany, phylogenetics/phylogeography and history. Contributors have been invited to provide an open and objective vision that includes as many views as possible on the topics considered. In this way, the readers may be able to compare different of points of view and make their own interpretations on each of the subjects considered. The book is intended for a wide audience including graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, university teachers and researchers interested in the subject. Given its multidisciplinary character and the topics included, the book is suitable for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines and interests.

Author : Paul Bahn,John Flenley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781442266568

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Easter Island, Earth Island by Paul Bahn,John Flenley Pdf

Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to a fascinating prehistoric culture—one that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and the birdman cult—and yet much of the island’s past remains shrouded in mystery. Where did the islanders come from, and when? How did Rapa Nui culture evolve over the centuries? How, and why, did their natural environment change over time? Paul Bahn and John Flenley guide readers through the mysteries and enigmas of Rapa Nui, incorporating the records of early explorers, folk legends, and archaeological evidence along the way. They cover the island’s geological and environmental history and explore its flora and fauna, illustrating how human actions affected the natural environment of the island. This fourth edition draws in: recent DNA studies of ancient human and animal bones as well as plant remains; evolving understandings of how the moai were transported; and current efforts to reforest the island.

Author : Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199925070

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The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania by Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sonia Haoa Cardinali,Kathleen B. Ingersoll,Daniel W. Ingersoll Jr.,Christopher M. Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315294438

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Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui by Sonia Haoa Cardinali,Kathleen B. Ingersoll,Daniel W. Ingersoll Jr.,Christopher M. Stevenson Pdf

Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of 1862 were to blame for the near extinction of the otherwise resilient Rapa Nui people. Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui brings together the latest studies by prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over the world to explore the island’s past and present, from its discovery by Polynesians, through the first documented contact with Western culture in 1722, to the 20th century. The exiting new volume looks beyond the moai to examine such questions as: was there was a cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui develop to adjust to naturally- or humanly-induced environmental change? This volume will appeal to scholars and professionals in the fields of history, archaeology and ecology, as well as anyone with an interest in the challenges of sustainable resource management, and the contentious history of Rapa Nui itself.

Author : Ian Conrich,Hermann Mückler
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783732902651

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Rapa Nui – Easter Island by Ian Conrich,Hermann Mückler Pdf

Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) has long captivated travellers and explorers since it was first encountered by European voyagers in 1722. The island’s colossal stone carvings (moai) have been the primary attraction, yet these have overshadowed the broader culture of the Rapanui people. This significant edited collection brings together thirteen specialists from eight countries in a series of studies that address the pre-history, history, contemporary society and popular culture of Easter Island. Consideration is given to both the Rapanui and western cultures with topics covered including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, tourism, literature, comic books and music. This is a multidisciplinary book with subjects ranging from fact to fiction and from Thor Heyerdahl and Katherine Routledge to Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.

Author : Steven R. Fischer
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002529309

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Easter Island Studies by Steven R. Fischer Pdf

A collection of studies surveying the latest research into the island's natural, environmental and cultural history.

Author : JoAnne Van Tilburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001161746

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Easter Island by JoAnne Van Tilburg Pdf

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 heart of the so-called mystery stand the gigantic moai. How were they moved? What do they mean? Over more than 12 years, nearly 1000 statues have been measured, drawn, and photographed by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and a team of colleagues. In this book the author draws on the insights that have been gained, to examine Rapa Nui prehistory in the context of new understandings of ecology and culture.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141976969

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Collapse by Jared Diamond Pdf

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times

Author : Kenneth Treister,Vargas Casanova Vargas,Claudio Cristino Ferrando
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826352644

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Easter Island's Silent Sentinels by Kenneth Treister,Vargas Casanova Vargas,Claudio Cristino Ferrando Pdf

"This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Easter Island
ISBN : 9561902877

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Easter Island and East Polynesian Prehistory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861894168

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Island at the End of the World by Steven Roger Fischer Pdf

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.

Author : Felipe L. Soza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Easter Island
ISBN : 9568481060

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Easter Island by Felipe L. Soza Pdf

Author : Vincent H. Stefan,George W. Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023666

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Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) by Vincent H. Stefan,George W. Gill Pdf

A succinct volume presenting current views of Rapanui prehistory, utilising biological evidence to modify existing archaeological and cultural anthropological preconceptions.

Author : Terry Hunt,Carl Lipo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1439154341

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The Statues that Walked by Terry Hunt,Carl Lipo Pdf

The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues are found anywhere else in the Pacific. How could the islanders possibly have moved so many multi-ton monoliths from the quarry inland, where they were carved, to their posts along the coastline? And most intriguing and vexing of all, if the island once boasted a culture developed and sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? Why was the island the Europeans encountered a sparsely populated wasteland? The prevailing accounts of the island’s history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. The island was dominated by a powerful chiefdom that promulgated a cult of statue making, exercising a ruthless hold on the island’s people and rapaciously destroying the environment, cutting down a lush palm forest that once blanketed the island in order to construct contraptions for moving more and more statues, which grew larger and larger. As the population swelled in order to sustain the statue cult, growing well beyond the island’s agricultural capacity, a vicious cycle of warfare broke out between opposing groups, and the culture ultimately suffered a dramatic collapse. When Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they fully expected to find evidence supporting these accounts. Instead, revelation after revelation uncovered a very different truth. In this lively and fascinating account of Hunt and Lipo’s definitive solution to the mystery of what really happened on the island, they introduce the striking series of archaeological discoveries they made, and the path-breaking findings of others, which led them to compelling new answers to the most perplexing questions about the history of the island. Far from irresponsible environmental destroyers, they show, the Easter Islanders were remarkably inventive environmental stewards, devising ingenious methods to enhance the island’s agricultural capacity. They did not devastate the palm forest, and the culture did not descend into brutal violence. Perhaps most surprising of all, the making and moving of their enormous statutes did not require a bloated population or tax their precious resources; their statue building was actually integral to their ability to achieve a delicate balance of sustainability. The Easter Islanders, it turns out, offer us an impressive record of masterful environmental management rich with lessons for confronting the daunting environmental challenges of our own time. Shattering the conventional wisdom, Hunt and Lipo’s ironclad case for a radically different understanding of the story of this most mysterious place is scientific discovery at its very best.

Author : Andreas Mieth,Hans-Rudolf Bork
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Easter Island
ISBN : 3980982300

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Easter Island - Rapa Nui by Andreas Mieth,Hans-Rudolf Bork Pdf