Easter island history pdf

The bibliography is divided into the various historical periods. Recent field work on easter island, east polynesia, has collected new data on monolithic statue sites, rock art design motifs and the ideological significance of their temporal and spatial. Learn more about the real meaning of easter including the history and holiday symbols. A major enigma in the recent history of easter island rapa nui fig. The stone faces and human problems on easter island. Name date student materials easter island mystery big history project lesson 1. Learn more about incredible human achievements in the history of easter island. Except for the phd thesis of georgia lee, little attention. When i went to easter island for the first time in 81, the number of people who visited per year was about 2,500, said van tilburg, director of. Natural and anthropogenic drivers of cultural change on easter island. Easter island rapa nui has become widely known as a case of eco cide, where the. Pdf on the geology of easter island sergei rjabchikov. Skeletal biology of the ancient rapanui easter islanders. The mystery of easter island new findings rekindle old debates about when the first people arrived and why their civilization collapsed.

When i first went to rapa nui to con duct archaeological research, i expect ed to help confirm this story. Archaeologists describe a technique that the ancient rapa nui may have. Many early visitors and researchers noted and commented upon petroglyphs. Except for the phd thesis of georgia lee, little attention was paid to the island s rock art to understand rapa nui civilization, even if more than four thousand petroglyphs. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. Pdf chronology and easter island prehistory researchgate. The abundance of archaeological evidence and historical debate has recently loaned itself to economists interested in using easters history as a case study for. It is the easternmost outpost of the polynesian island world. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of jesus from the tomb on the third day after his cruxifixion. It was given this name by the dutch com mander jacob roggeveen, who first. Introduction in the middle of the south pacific, several thousand kilometers west of the coast of chile, is the most isolated inhabited piece of land on earth. The island stands in isolation 1,200 miles 1,900 kilometres east of pitcairn island and 2,200 miles west of chile. A companion to easter island guide to rapa nui james grant peterkin on. Instead, i found evidence that just didnt fit the underlying.