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Book Synopsis Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island by : William J. Thomson
Download or read book Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island written by William J. Thomson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1891-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Te Pito Te Henua, Or Easter Island by : William Judah Thomson
Download or read book Te Pito Te Henua, Or Easter Island written by William Judah Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Te Pito Te Henua, Know as Rapa Nui by : George Henry Cooke
Download or read book Te Pito Te Henua, Know as Rapa Nui written by George Henry Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Te Pito te Henua by : George Henry Cooke
Download or read book Te Pito te Henua written by George Henry Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Te Pito te Henua, known as Rapa Nui : commonly called Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean ; latitude 27° 10' S., longitude 109° 26' W. by : George H. Cooke
Download or read book Te Pito te Henua, known as Rapa Nui : commonly called Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean ; latitude 27° 10' S., longitude 109° 26' W. written by George H. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rongorongo written by Steven R. Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive documentation of Rongorongo, Easter Island's enigmatic script and Oceania's only known pre-twentieth-century writing system. The author tells the full history of rongorongo's exciting discovery and the many attempts at a decipherment and provides full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving rongorongo inscriptions along with detailed photographs of nearly every incised artifact.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania by : Ethan E. Cochrane
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Ethan E. Cochrane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Collapse written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Rapa Nui by : Paulus Kieviet
Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
Book Synopsis The Statues that Walked by : Terry Hunt
Download or read book The Statues that Walked written by Terry Hunt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues are found anywhere else in the Pacific. How could the islanders possibly have moved so many multi-ton monoliths from the quarry inland, where they were carved, to their posts along the coastline? And most intriguing and vexing of all, if the island once boasted a culture developed and sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? Why was the island the Europeans encountered a sparsely populated wasteland? The prevailing accounts of the island’s history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. The island was dominated by a powerful chiefdom that promulgated a cult of statue making, exercising a ruthless hold on the island’s people and rapaciously destroying the environment, cutting down a lush palm forest that once blanketed the island in order to construct contraptions for moving more and more statues, which grew larger and larger. As the population swelled in order to sustain the statue cult, growing well beyond the island’s agricultural capacity, a vicious cycle of warfare broke out between opposing groups, and the culture ultimately suffered a dramatic collapse. When Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they fully expected to find evidence supporting these accounts. Instead, revelation after revelation uncovered a very different truth. In this lively and fascinating account of Hunt and Lipo’s definitive solution to the mystery of what really happened on the island, they introduce the striking series of archaeological discoveries they made, and the path-breaking findings of others, which led them to compelling new answers to the most perplexing questions about the history of the island. Far from irresponsible environmental destroyers, they show, the Easter Islanders were remarkably inventive environmental stewards, devising ingenious methods to enhance the island’s agricultural capacity. They did not devastate the palm forest, and the culture did not descend into brutal violence. Perhaps most surprising of all, the making and moving of their enormous statutes did not require a bloated population or tax their precious resources; their statue building was actually integral to their ability to achieve a delicate balance of sustainability. The Easter Islanders, it turns out, offer us an impressive record of masterful environmental management rich with lessons for confronting the daunting environmental challenges of our own time. Shattering the conventional wisdom, Hunt and Lipo’s ironclad case for a radically different understanding of the story of this most mysterious place is scientific discovery at its very best.
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the United States National Museum ... by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the United States National Museum ... written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Smithsonian Institution
Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journeys II written by Archie Stanley and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to his first book, Archie Stanley’s Journeys II offers alternative family migrations that parallel the DNA-based migrations described in Journeys. These alternative migrations branch off from the main family migration pathway from Africa to North America, and could account for many relatively recent archeological discoveries that seem to be in unexpected places, given the extremely accurate DNA Traces documented in the Genome Project of the National Geographic Magazine of human migrations. Crisscrossing the earth, these alternative migrations travelled varied directions and some met in unexpected and remote places. Fictional family members intermingled and exchanged stories of experiences with fictional natives over virtually the entire globe. Survival was the paramount objective across many generations of family members as they journeyed over millennia to faraway corners of our planet. Stories and discussions among the characters in Journeys II offer new theories of gravity, earth magnetic and electro forces, structured space energy grid, dating of ancient monuments, purpose of the Great Pyramid, age of the Great Sphinx, and possible sources and reasons for evidence that exists before our eyes all across the world. Based upon this worldwide evidence an exciting alternative pre-ancient history scenario is offered whose cultures exerted global influence and was based on two continents that no longer exist; rather, they were submerged 12,500 years ago in the areas of today’s two major oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific. These massive changes in our planet earth, were a result of incredible cosmic induced forces 12,500 years ago that virtually peppered our planet with near light speed particles and large projectiles that collided with or nearly collided with earth. The result was a near complete melting of the massive icecap that covered most of the northern hemisphere with subsequent huge tidal waves and massive flooding of continents, extinction of most of the large species of animals all across the earth, and near complete destruction of earth’s landscape, and complete destruction and submergence of the two former Atlantic and Pacific continents described in the previous paragraph. Brought to life pictorially by Google Earth maps, sketches, and custom full color illustrations, the stories take the reader’s emotions on several wild journeys that provoke deep thought on how evidence, including massive monuments, myths, chants, stories, carvings, religions, and unexplained damage of the earth and huge deposits of the bones of extinct animals all over the world came to be. It is recent anomalous archeologic discoveries all across the earth that drive the need for rewriting the history of the earth. The stories and ideas presented in Journeys II are in part intended to assist in bringing worldwide evidence to the reader’s attention and encourage new ideas of who created the evidence and what the evidence means.
Book Synopsis Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: