An edition of Easter Island, Earth Island (1992)

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An edition of Easter Island, Earth Island (1992)

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Easter Island--known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui--is unimaginably remote, a mysterious volcanic island battered by the Pacific Ocean. Yet somehow this isolated speck produced one of the world's most fascinating and least understood prehistoric cultures. Its awe-inspiring giant stone statues, set in a bare landscape of rolling hills, abandoned quarries and huge craters, have become icons of the ancient world. Who were the people who produced these extraordinary towering figures? Why did they travel to the island in the first place, what did they bring with them, and how did they survive?

In the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of this enigmatic culture available, Paul Bahn and John Flenley explore the mysteries of Easter Island, overturning many of Thor Heyerdahl's well-publicized but ill-founded theories. They consider possible methods by which the islanders transported the massive effigies over long distances and erected them on platforms. They also look at the largely undeciphered Rongorongo "script" engraved on wooden boards, and the bizarre cult of the birdman, with its complex egg-hunting ritual. Why, the authors ask, did the islanders deliberately topple the figures after the first Europeans visited the island in the 8th century?

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, intriguing folk memories and the records of Captain Cook and other early explorers, Easter Island, Earth Island reveals how the decline may stem from ecological catastrophe. Easter Island confronts us with the specter of a civilization destroyed by reckless plundering of the environment, its abandoned statues a timely warning for us as guardians of our own fragile natural world--Earth Island.

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Thames and Hudson
Language
English
Pages
240

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.

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New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
996.1/8
Library of Congress
F3169 .B34 1992

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Pagination
240 p. :
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1572169M
Internet Archive
easterislandeart0000bahn
ISBN 10
0500050651
LCCN
91067308
OCLC/WorldCat
25957118
Library Thing
679066
Goodreads
408371

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