Easter Island Studies
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Easter Island Studies
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Author : Steven R. Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 1993
Easter Island Studies written by Steven R. Fischer and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
A collection of studies surveying the latest research into the island's natural, environmental and cultural history.
Easter Island Studies
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Author : Steven R. Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 1993
Easter Island Studies written by Steven R. Fischer and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
A collection of studies surveying the latest research into the island's natural, environmental and cultural history.
Rapa Nui Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Rapa Nui Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Easter Island categories.
Pacific Island Studies
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Author : Miles M. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1986-04-22
Pacific Island Studies written by Miles M. Jackson and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-22 with History categories.
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The Statues That Walked
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Author : Terry Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-06-21
The Statues That Walked written by Terry Hunt and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-21 with History categories.
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.
Journal Of Austronesian Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Journal Of Austronesian Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Austronesian languages categories.
The Survival Of Easter Island
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Author : J. J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-13
The Survival Of Easter Island written by J. J. Boersema and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with History categories.
Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
The Enigmas Of Easter Island
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Author : John Flenley
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003-05-29
The Enigmas Of Easter Island written by John Flenley and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-29 with History categories.
Easter Island, an isolated speck in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood of ancient cultures. Who were the inhabitants of this unimaginably remote volcanic island? Where did they come from? What, and equally intriguing, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island? And what became of their civilization? - ;Easter Island, an unimaginably remote volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood prehistoric cultures. Who were its inhabitants, and where did they come from? Why, and equally intriguingly, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island? Paul Bahn and John Flenley tackle these and a host of other questions, introducing us, along the way, to the bizarre birdman cult found in the island's art, and the only recently deciphered Rongorongo script engraved on wooden panels. The Enigmas of Easter Island combines a wealth of new archaeological evidence, intriguing folk memories and the records of Captain Cook and other early explorers, to reveal how the island's decline may stem from ecological catastrophe. The result is a fascinating portrait of a civilization which still retains many of its mysteries. This book, originally published in 1992, was hailed as the best account of Easter Island ever written. Now it has been brought substantially up to date with a wealth of new material. -
The World S Writing Systems
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Author : Peter T. Daniels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The World S Writing Systems written by Peter T. Daniels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.
Oceanic Culture History
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Author : Janet M. Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Oceanic Culture History written by Janet M. Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Archaeology categories.