Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, a noted Rapanui artist, is project co-director. Van Tilburg, in partnership with members of the local community, heads the first legally permitted excavations of Moai in Rano Raraku since 1955. Van Tilburg also serves as director of UCLA’s Rock Art Archive. Her Easter Island Statue Project is supported in part by UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Tom Wake, a Cotsen Institute colleague, analyzes small-animal remains from the excavation site. Van Tilburg has been working on Rapa Nui for more than three decades. I think our new analysis humanizes the production process of the Moai,” Van Tilburg said. “Our excavation broadens our perspective of the Moai and encourages us to realize that nothing, no matter how obvious, is ever exactly as it seems. Van Tilburg said the analysis showed that in addition to serving as a quarry and a place for carving statues, Rano Raraku also was the site of a productive agricultural area. Extensive laboratory testing of soil samples from the same area shows evidence of foods such as banana, taro and sweet potato. Van Tilburg’s most recent analysis focused on two of the monoliths that stand within the inner region of the Rano Raraku quarry, which is the origin of 95 percent of the island’s more than 1,000 Moai. Van Tilburg and her team, working with geoarchaeologist and soils specialist Sarah Sherwood, believe they have found scientific evidence of that long-hypothesized meaning thanks to careful study of two particular Moai excavated over five years in the Rano Raraku quarry on the eastern side of the Polynesian island.
Their existence is a marvel of human ingenuity - and their meaning a source of some mystery.Īncient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at large, believed the statues capable of producing agricultural fertility and thereby critical food supplies, according to a new study from Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, recently published in Journal of Archaeological Science. 3rd Party Apps 15.Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Links to source codeīeginning iOS developers who find Objective-C difficult but HTML5-based tools too limiting more advanced iOS developers who want to integrate and open their apps to extension via Lua scripting.
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