Easter Island
Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to find and settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows why the moai, nearly a thousand megalithic statues, were carved, transported, and erected--or why they were all found face down by European explorers. And did a Stone Age population of less than 10,000 actually def…
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- Full title :Easter Island / by Ronald A. Reis.
Summary
Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to find and settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows why the moai, nearly a thousand megalithic statues, were carved, transported, and erected--or why they were all found face down by European explorers. And did a Stone Age population of less than 10,000 actually deforest the land, causing environmental devastation? When settlers first appeared, there were as many as 16 million Chilean palms covering 70 percent of the island, but by the early eighteenth century, Western visitors were astonished by the total absence of trees. Though it is often studied and probed, Easter Island remains one of the most mysterious places on the planet.--From publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Chelsea House
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:115 pages : : color illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781604139723, 1604139722
- oclc:ocn606772301
- LC Classification:F3169
- Dewey Decimal:996.1/8
Table of Contents
Polynesian wayfinders -- Te pito te henua -- Megalithic monuments -- Collapse -- Sacred birdmen -- Western contact and Rapanui response -- The lost century -- Research and renewal.
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