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easter island statue project official website mana gallery mana press eisp contact eisp featured articles eisp history 1980s 1990s 2000s field dispatches letters from the director recent news links staff collaborators cristián arévalo p jo anne van tilburg archaeology eisp excavation historic expeditions routledge moai inventory museum objects inventory rano raraku survey atlas publication research documents comparative studies field notes documents presentations publications transport experiment art aesthetics body art rock art sculpture embellishment conservation aia partnership laser scanning conservation reports rapa nui about rapa nui guest contribution community links media coverage rapa nui outrigger club support donate english español easter island statue project official website letters from the director te moai rapa nui dear friends of eisp today we have good news to share with you the publication of our forthcoming volume te moai rapa nui so long in preparation is imminent it is a 600 page volume in five parts exploring the art and science of rapa nui as discovered by the eisp team during our four decades of archaeological field work and excavations it is enriched by the contributions of 34 international colleagues with equal experience of rapa nui 108 originally produced maps and the drawings of rapanui artist cristián arévalo pakarati we are especially pleased to publish our findings with the world renowned cotsen institute of archaeology press which will also include an online supplemental data presentation for those of you who have visited the island or hope to do so and so many others who have expressed interest in the incomparable moai we offer an opportunity to add your name and email address to a private list of those interested in purchasing a copy of the atlas the list will go to the cioa press and you will be contacted directly to initiate the sale this volume and the maps in it are said by reviewers to be an archaeological tour de force and the excavations we conducted in rano raraku the statue quarry to be a case study in salvaging every bit of available information we are enormously proud of this accomplishment as you can imagine and pleased to share it with all of you te moai rapa nui easter island s monolithic statues an illustrated archaeological atlas jo anne van tilburg with selected transcribed fieldnotes by katherine routledge this volume is the first illustrated archaeological atlas of easter island rapa nui discovered by polynesian explorers ca 900 ce rapanui society encountered the western world for the first time in 1722 an event followed by 48 years of isolation until the next foreign ship appeared on the horizon that liminal period and other formidable events in rapanui culture history are examined through an integrated art and science approach and a contextually holistic research strategy seminal ecological research in multiple scientific fields is united with island wide archaeological survey data generated by international contributors to this atlas at the heart of this volume is a decades long study of the attributes characteristics and situations of 1 040 monolithic sculptural objects moai each is described through research carried out by jo anne van tilburg and her team excavations in rano raraku statue quarry reveal ancient engineering methods thousands of survey points plotted on 108 original illustrated maps link the moai to habitation and agricultural features while museum objects and artifacts along with historical maps and photographs offer social context the transcribed fieldnotes of ethnographer katherine routledge and the accurate and expressive moai drawings by rapanui artist cristián arévalo pakarati provide cultural depth forthcoming ucla cotsen institute of archaeology press sign up for the private email wait list jo anne van tilburg ph d director eisp april 9th 2026 featured articles phase 2 season 2 easter island statue project march 16 april 14 2014 dr jo anne van tilburg ucla project director cristián arévalo pakarati rapa nui project co director josé miguel ramírez a universidad de valparaiso co investigator introduction this report is prepared as part of a numbered series that describes the excavations conducted by the easter island statue project in rano raraku quarry zone interior region quarry 02 statues rr 001 156 and rr 001 157 the team is composed of an all rapanui excavation staff directed by the project co directors with the completion of the conservation and scientific investigations conducted by our chilean collaborator monica bahamondez p and our ucla collaborator dr christian fischer we were joined this season by our new chilean collaborator sr josé miguel ramírez a universidad de valparaíso our research agreement is contained in a memo of understanding between the universidad de valparaíso and the cotsen institute of archaeology at ucla this report summarizes our collections and investigations for the period beginning monday march 10 and ending monday march 14 2014 this report is part of a preliminary final report that includes some but not all of our in process laboratory test results and collections analyses as per our permit cmn ord 5467 09 a final report will be published in 2015 2016 by the the cotsen institute of archaeology press read more posted on october 28th 2014 by jo anne van tilburg ph d categories 2000s aia partnership conservation reports eisp excavation featured articles phase 2 season 1 easter island statue project phase 2 season 1 august 2013 jo anne van tilburg and cristián arévalo p this report describes recent excavations beginning phase 2 of the project and concentrating on the ventral side of moai rr 001 156 these excavations are a continuation of limited excavations conducted on the ventral side during phase 1 which focused on reaching the base of the statue on the dorsal side the excavation season commenced on august 6 2013 and actual excavation ended on august 29 2013 the excavation was subsequently closed to protect it from heavy rains and with the help of personnel from conaf and cmn read more posted on october 28th 2014 by jo anne van tilburg ph d categories 2000s aia partnership conservation reports eisp excavation featured articles phase 1 season 6 easter island statue project eisp conservation initiative march 2012 jo anne van tilburg and cristián arévalo pakarati have accomplished an archaeological survey and inventory of the monolithic stone sculpture moai of rapa nui to date we have accounted for 1 300 monolithic sculptural objects within the island wide survey sections in museum collections and within the rano raraku quarry zone including complete as opposed to intact statues heads torsos fragments shaped block the latter are considered to be evidence of human activity in the form of incomplete or abandoned projects elucidating energy investment the most recent object entered into our collaborative on line database datashare is a red stone torso submitted by enrique tucki m of the oficina provincial the corporación nacional forestal conaf read more posted on october 28th 2014 by jo anne van tilburg ph d categories 2000s aia partnership conservation reports eisp excavation featured articles phase 1 season 5 easter island statue project conservation initiative season v excavation summary rr 001 156 and square 4 rr 001 157 jo anne van tilburg november 2011 introduction this report is another in a series of reports dealing with the excavation of statues rr 001 156 and rr 001 157 in rano raraku quarry rapa nui chile the previous reports were filed with the appropriate chilean and rapa nui agencies and also provided to the general public on the easter island statue project web site www eisp org this report deals with the continuing excavation of statue rr 001 156 to the base and square 4 of rr 001 157 these activities took place during season v november 2011 of the easter island statue project conservation initiative read more posted on october 28th 2014 by jo anne van tilburg ph d categories 2000s aia partnership conservation reports eisp excavation featured articles support become a friend of eisp eisp foundation is a 501 3 c entity recent news links uncovering pacific pasts objects have many stories to tell the stories of their makers and their uses stories of exchange acquisition display and interpretation this book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections and their object biographies that were displayed in the uncovering pacific pasts histories of archaeology in oceania upp exhibition the exhibition which opened on 1 march 2020 sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www uncoveringpacificpasts org thirty eight collecting institutions participated in upp including major collecting institutions in the united kingdom continental europe and the americas as well as collecting institutions from across the pacific uncovering pacific pasts is available for free download including jo anne van tilburg s chapter intelligent eyes visualising rapa nui easter island archaeology posted on june 27th 2022 by admin radiolab the dirty drug and the ice cream tub radiolab tells the surprising story behind rapamycin in the latest episode the dirty drug and the ice cream tub posted on june 4th 2021 by admin 2021 lectures ucla cotsen institute of archaeology april 9 2021 ritualized stone and public art on easter island highlights and insights of recent excavations in the statue quarry jo anne van tilburg watch the recording on youtube https youtu be vfc6masffna university of tennessee mcclung museum february 4 2021 ritualized stone and craft specialization recent excavation in easter island s statue quarry presented by dr jo anne van tilburg westwood women s bruin club march 18 2021 the iconic tattooed man of easter island posted on may 1st 2021 by admin publications mana press the iconic tattooed man of easter island mana press book 1 the iconic tattooed man of easter island by adrienne l kaeppler jo anne van tilburg more posted on march 22nd 2019 by admin finding solutions for protecting and sharing archaeological heritage resources dr van tilburg has contributed a chapter to the book finding solutions for protecting and sharing archaeological heritage resources the chapter entitled seeking solutions an archaeological approach to conservation of a threatened heritage on rapa nui easter island was co authored with christian fischer mónica bahamondez prieto and cristián arévalo pakarati posted on december 21st 2015 by eisp staff easter island archaeology ecology and culture by jo anne van tilburg foreword by john mack hardcover 232 pages 30 color and 124 b w illustrations smithsonian press october 1995 order a signed copy from eisp 80 more posted on may 7th 2009 by eisp staff the content of 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