EISP Current News Archives
November
3-30, 2007
Field
Season Begins!
We have posted some new dispatches detailing this
past week's adventures. Follow along with us through this link:
2007
Field Dispatches
November
2nd, 2007 at 9pm
Mysterious
Journeys: Easter Island, Travel Channel
"More than 2000 miles from another civilization,
Easter Island is often called the most remote island on the planet.
It's also home to one of history's most enduring mysteries: who or what
could have built and transported more than 800 stone statues?"Jo
Anne Van Tilburg and the Statue Transport Project are featured in this
episode of Mysterious Journeys. Check your local listings for exact
airdates.
May
17th, 2007 at 9pm
Mega
Movers: Ancient Mystery Moves
Jo Anne Van Tilburg and the Statue Transport Project are featured in
this episode of the popular History Channel show Mega Movers on May
17th, 9pm. Please check your local listings or the History Channel's
website to confirm, http://www.history.com/
On March 9, 2006, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Explorers of New Frontiers at UCLA Extension
Dr. Van Tilburg will speak in the "Explorers of New Frontiers"
program for UCLA Extension. The program takes place at 10920 Lindbrook
Drive, Westwood Village. For more info, visit the Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute homepage: www.uclaextension.edu/osher.
Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 7:30 PM
What Can Archaeology Teach Us About the
Future?
Dr. Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs
and Steel and, more recently, of Collapse, will deliver
the Jo Anne Van Tilburg lecture for the Archaeological Institute of
America. A reception and book signing will follow.
UCLA Faculty Center
Please contact Dr. B. Wohl (mbwohl@hotmail.com) for further information.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Recent Research on Rapa Nui
Jo Anne Van Tilburg will lecture on the topic of “Recent Research
on Rapa Nui” for the San Diego Chapter of the Archaeological Institute
of America meeting on Friday, January 20, 2006. Information on time
and place forthcoming.
November 7, 2005, 7AM-10AM (Pacific Time)
Matt Lauer Turns up on Easter Island: NBC
Segment "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?"
Matt Lauer, co-host of the NBC Today Show, ventures to Easter Island
with Jo Anne Van Tilburg to recount the story of the Rapa Nui people
and the Moai statues they share
the island with.
NBC Today Show
See the video
here
September 1st, 2005, 4PM
Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable
Voyage to Easter Island
Leture by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, with reception and booksigning
The Mount: Edith Wharton's Estate and Gardens
Lenox, Massachusetts
More
event info
July 2005
Jo Anne Van Tilburg appointed to National Landmarks
Committee
On July 19, 2005, Douglas P. Wheeler, Chairperson of the
National Park System Advisory Board, announced the appointment of Jo
Anne Van Tilburg to the National Landmarks Committee.
The purpose of the National Landmarks Committee is to
review nominations for National Historic Landmarks and to make recommendations
to the National Park System Advisory Board. As a member of the Landmarks
Committee, Van Tilburg will help form opinions about the adequacy of
historic landmarks nominations, including their proposed boundaries,
and whether the properties or sites in question meet the established
criteria for national significance and historic integrity. The findings
of the Landmarks Committee will be reported by the Chairperson to the
board in advance of a final vote on whether to recommend designation
by the Secretary of the Interior. The appointment is a four year term.
Other members of the Committee include: Dr. L.E. Rivers, Dean, College
of Arts and Sciences, Florida A & M University; Prof. E.L. Roy Hunt,<
University of Florida College of Law; Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA; Dr.
A.B. Harrison, Director, Margaret Walker Alexander National Research
Center; Mr. R.M. James, Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer;
Dr. W.J. Murtagh, Plymouth Harbor; Dr. W. Seale, Dr. J.M. Allan, Vice
Pres., William Self Assoc., Inc., and Dr. C. Carson, Vice Pres., Research
Division, Colonial Willimasburg Foundation.
Read more about the National Historic Landmarks Program
here.
La Tercera
The biography of Katherine Routledge and Jo Anne Van Tilburg
are featured in the Chilean newspaper La Tercera: http://www.latercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,38039818_90162750_149893515,00.html
Web Site Updates
We've added lots of new pages to the website!
Some Highlights:
Site Index
listing all of the pages on the EISP site.
Rano
Raraku Mapping Field Report summing up the recent work
in the quarry.
Statue
Transport Project documenting the project seen on NOVA.
Rapa
Nui Carver’s Perspective of shaping a
modern day concrete moai replica.
Katherine
Routledge Biography Research telling the story behind the
story of Among Stone Giants.
June 2005
Summertime Activities
During the Northern Hemisphere warm months, the EISP team
is working hard on building up the digital image database, editing the
Interior Rano Raraku Maps in preparation for publication in 2006, updating
sections of this website to include more statue information, and planning
future projects to realize the presentation and publication of a complete
statue catalog.
October 2004
The Getty presents:
Getting the Picture: Archaeological
Inventory, Database
Imagery and the Preservation of Easter Island Statues
Presented by: Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Director,
Rock Art Archive, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Tuesday, October 19, 4:pm
The Getty Center
Herculaneum, East Building L3
Call 310 440 7300 for reservations
The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is an archaeological inventory
of the statues (moai) of Easter
Island (Rapa Nui). Extensive formal and stylistic details describing
nearly 900 statues on 210 sites
were compiled in a comprehensive research catalog supported by an image
database containing over
10,000 photographs, drawings and maps. EISP condition reports, collected
since 1982 and
augmented by careful observations by others dating to 1914, illustrate
the rapid and lamentable
deterioration of the moai. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter
Island Statue Project, will
examine how the EISP database serves as a useful tool in the multi-disciplinary
effort required to
save the moai.
Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who holds a Ph.D. in archaeology
from the University of California, Los
Angeles—is a leading expert on Easter Island statues. She is the
author of the “Easter Island” entry in
the Encyclopedia of Prehistory published by the Human Relations
Area Files at Yale University, and
of Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and her Remarkable
Expedition to Easter
Island.
A series of occasional lectures hosted by the Getty
Conservation Institute (GCI) examining conservation issues from around
the world. The GCI is a program of the Getty dedicated to furthering
conservation practice and education worldwide in order to enhance and
encourage the preservation, understanding, and interpretation of the
visual arts.
in memorium
David Carl Ochsner
August 21, 1929-October 1, 2004
EISP Project Photographer
Philosopher, traveler, wine connoisseur, great dancer and best friend.
July 7, 2004
Field Season 2004!
The EISP team will be on Rapa Nui in July for another visit
to capture images and make observational reports on the condition of
the statues. Join
us through our personal journal entries from this season.
March 11, 2004
New York Times Review of Books,
Twilight at Easter
Dr. Jared Diamond writes about Easter Island and reviews
Jo Anne's biography of Katherine Routledge, Among Stone Giants.
Read it online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16992
December 13, 2003
New Statues Found!
Photo by Pam Davies © EISP.
Upon returning from leading last month's British Museum
Traveller archaeological tours, Dr. Van Tilburg adds some remarks
about the discovery of three previously undocumented moai since
2002!
Read
more about it here.
August 22, 2003
Coming Up
Jo Anne Van Tilburg is back in the U.S. and will begin
to lecture at various points across the country.
See the
Among Stone Giants Lecture Schedule for more information.
She also returns to directing the UCLA
Rock Art Archive, including Captured Visions, a volunteer
driven rock art recording project at Little Lake, California.
August 5, 2003
Closing Remarks to Another
Field Season
Field season 2003 has come to a close for the EISP team.
They recruit a new team member to help wrap up the last batch of photographs
and measurements just as the rainy season is picking up on Rapa Nui.
Read their closing
comments.
July 29, 2003
New Dispatches
Have Arrived!
The EISP field crew took time out of their busy field
days to fill everyone in on the crew members, and what they've been
up to. Go check out
their journal entries and see their amazing photographs.
A view of the Ahu Anakena from the back. ©2003
EISP
