Easter Island's Silent Sentinels

Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
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Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780826352668
ISBN-13 : 0826352669
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Book Synopsis Easter Island's Silent Sentinels by : Kenneth Treister

Download or read book Easter Island's Silent Sentinels written by Kenneth Treister and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental stone architecture, roads, and a puzzling ideographic script. And then they went about sculpting amazing, giant human figures in stone. This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island’s vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues. It shows the conjecturally reconstructed prehistoric pole houses; the ahu, the sculptures’ platform, as a spectacular expression of prehistoric megalithic architecture; and the Easter Island Statue Project’s inventory of the colossal moai sculptures. This publication is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.


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