The Enigmas of Easter Island - Hardcover

Flenley, John; Bahn, Paul

 
9780192803405: The Enigmas of Easter Island
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0192803409 ISBN 13: 9780192803405
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Paul Bahn is one of the leading writers and broadcasters on archaeology for a popular audience. He is the author of the standard introduction to cave art,Images of the Ice Age, The Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology, and the popularArchaeology: A Very Short Introduction. John Flenley is currently Professor of Geography at Massey University in New Zealand. A world authority on the ecology of tropical rainforests, he was the first to publish evidence that Easter Island was once forested.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192803409
ISBN 13 
9780192803405
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
274
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