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Rapa Nui (Easter Island)’s Stone Worlds

Author(s) -

Sue Hamilton

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

archaeology international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2048-4194

pISSN - 1463-1725

DOI - 10.5334/ai.1613

Subject(s) - architecture , plucking , statue , history , archaeology , geography , architectural engineering , engineering , art history , meteorology

This article explores the spatial, architectural and conceptual relationships between landscape places, stone quarrying, and stone moving and building during Rapa Nui’s statue-building period. These are central themes of the ‘Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project’ and are discussed using aspects of the findings of our recent fieldwork. The different scales of expression, from the detail of the domestic sphere to the monumental working of quarries, are considered. It is suggested that the impressiveness of Rapa Nui’s stone architecture is its conceptual coherence at the small scale as much as at the large scale.

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