Episode 39: The Moai of Rapa Nui

Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App (just search for “Stuff about Things Art History”) or by clicking HERE. Happy listening!

Sources:

Arnold, Caroline. Easter Island: Giant Stone Statues Tell of a Rich and Tragic Past. New York: Clarion Books, 2000.
Bloch, Hannah. “If They Could Only Talk.” National Geographic 222, no. 1 (July 2012): 30-49.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Flenley, John and John Bahn. The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Heyerdahl, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. London: Allen & Unwin, 1948.
——. Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1958.
Hunt, Terry. “Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island.” American Scientist 94, no. 5 (September 2006): 412-419.
Kjellgren, Eric. Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
Lipo, Carl and Terry Hunt. The Statues that Walked: Unravelling the Mystery of Easter Island. New York: Free Press, 2011.
Lipo, Carl, Terry Hunt, and Sergio Rapu Haoa. “The ‘Walking’ Megalithic Statues (moai) of Easter Island.” Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (2013): 2859-2866. [download available here]
Routledge, Katherine. The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition. London: Sifton, Praed & Co. Ltd., 1920.
Van Tilburg, Jo Anne. Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology, and Culture. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
——. Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island. New York: Scribner, 2003.