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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Volume 17, Number 2 • October 2003

 

Volume 18, Number 1 • May 2004

 

Volume 18, Number 2 • October 2004

 

Volume 19, Number 1 • May 2005

 

Volume 19, Number 2 • October 2005

 

Volume 20, Number 1 • May 2006

 

Volume 20, Number 2 • October 2006

 

Volume 21, Number 1 • May 2007

 

Volume 21, Number 2 • October 2007

 


 

Volume 17, Number 2 • October 2003

 

From the Editors

79

Archaeological Investigations at the Pulemelei Mound, Savai‘i, Samoa

Helene Martinsson-Wallin, Geoffrey Clark

and Paul Wallin

81

Rethinking the Traditional Classification of Hawaiian Poi Pounders

Windy Keala McElroy

85

A Classification of Hawaiian Artifacts Based on Morphology and Wear: Analyses of Discoidal Artifacts

Julie S. Field

94

Laupahoehoe Nui: Archaeology of a High-risk Landscape

on Windward Hawai‘i Island

Peter R. Mills

106

Study of the Human Remains Discovered at Ahu ‘o Rongo, Rapa Nui

Caroline Polet

114

The Key Role of Jubea Palm Trees in the History of Rapa Nui: A Provocative Interpretation

Hans-Rudolf Bork and Andreas Mieth

119

Calligan’s Lost Rongorongo, and Some Shipwrecks

Yoram Meroz

122

Toward the Autonomy of Rapa Nui?

Francesco di Castri

126

Update on Rapa Nui Veterinary Issues and Potential Human Public Health Ramifications

Jonathan Arzt

131

A Look Back:

 

Roussel’s Report of 1869

136

Reviews:  


Enigmas of Easter Island by John Flenley & Paul Bahn

Shawn McLaughlin


Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes

Scott Nicolay

146

EIF News

147

Burning Moai: Dragon Debris’s Easter Island Village

Scott Nicolay

148

What’s New in the Pacific

148

What’s New in Hanga Roa

150

Publications

152

 

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Volume 18, Number 1 • May 2004

 

From the Editors

5

Archaeological Excavation at Vinapu (Rapa Nui)

Helene Martinsson-Wallin

7

Nothing but Stones? A Review of the Extent and Technical Efforts of Prehistoric Stone Mulching on Rapa Nui

Hans-Rudolf Bork, Andreas Mieth, and Bernd Tschochner

10

Paradoxical Hyperbole: Imagining Rapa Nui’s Remoteness and Mystery

J. Douglas Porteous

15

Rapa Nui: a Hyperbolic Iconography

J. Douglas Porteous

17

Where Have All the Koro Gone?

Grant McCall

20

Coming of Age on Rapa Nui: On Doing Anthropological Field Work Among the Rapanui Youth

Olaug Irene Røsvik Andreassen

22

Colonialism and Resistance in Rapa Nui

Riet Delsing

24

Rapa Nui’s Sea Creatures

Georgia Lee

31

Where Does the Santiago Staff Begin?

Jacques B.M. Guy

39

Reply to Guy

Steven Roger Fischer

41

‘A Pó: The Rapa Nui Youth Archaeology Program Puna Pau Field Report

Britton L. Shepardson, et al.

43

A Look Back:


Voyage to Easter Island 1877, by Alphonse Louis Pinart

Translated by Ann M. Altman


Early Speculations on Rapanui: Letter from Thomas Croft to Alphonse Pinart, 1876

Yoram Meroz                                                  

47

Reviews:


Fifty Years in the Field. Essays in Honour and Celebration of Richard Shutler Jr’s Archaeological Career by Stephanie Garling

Mike Carson and Dave Tuggle


"The Riddle of Pre-Contact World Maps": 1421, the Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

Herbert von Saher


Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World’s Environmental Problems in Microcosm by John Loret, et al.

Shawn McLaughlin


Moon Handbooks Tahiti: Including the Cook Islands by David Stanley

Shawn McLaughlin


Moon Handbooks: Micronesia by Neil Levy

Felicia R. Beardsley

58

Letters to the Editor 

69

Moai Sightings

71

What’s New in the Pacific: Micronesia; Fiji; Cyclone Heta; Tuvalu; Marquesas Islands; Hawai’i; Pitcairn

72

What’s New in Hanga Roa

74

Recent Publications

78

Easter Island Foundation News

79

 

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Volume 18, Number 2 • October 2004

 

From the Editors

85

Rongorongo and the Rock Art of Easter Island

Shawn McLaughlin

87

Phytolithic Evidence for the Introduction of Schoenoplectus californicus subsp. Tatora at Easter Island

L. Vrydaghs, C. Cocquyt, T. Van de Vijver,

and P. Goetghebeur

95

Where in the World are the Moai?

Len Sharp and Fran Nottage

107

Studying Easter Island's Molluscan Fauna

Brett K. Raines

108

Feast and Famine: A Gourmet's Guide to Rapa Nui

Georgia Lee

112

A Look Back:

 

Travel Round the World Onboard the Ship Neva Performed in 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806

Urey Lisjanskij; translated by Paul Horley; edited by Shawn McLaughlin

 

Images of the Marquesas from the Krusenstern Expedition, 1804

Carol S. Ivory

118

Getting to Know You: Charles M. Love

132

Reviews:

 

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan

Georgia Lee

 

Between Nature and Culture; the Burial of the Placenta in French Polynesia by Bruno Saura

Ann M. Altman

 

Ra'ivavae. Archaeological Survey of Ra'ivavae, French Polynesia by Edmundo Edwards

Sidsel Millerstrom

 

Early Visitors to Easter Island, 1864-1877. The Reports of Eugène Eyraud, Hippolyte Roussel, Pierre Loti and Alphonse Pinart (translated by Ann M. Altman)

Shawn McLaughlin

134

Letters to the Editor

137

Moai Sightings

138

What’s New Elsewhere

139

What’s New in the Pacific

140

What’s New in Hanga Roa

142

Publications

142

Easter Island Foundation News

143

 

 

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Volume 19, Number 1 • May 2005

 

From the Editors

5

Preliminary Report on the Discovery of an Unknown Ahu at Viri o Tuki (Ko Te Aheru), South Coast, Easter Island

Dirk Hiyge and Nicolas Caiwe

7

Resistance and Land Control on Rapa Nui

Douglas Porteous and Tandy Stephard-Toomey

10

Historical Records and Archaeological Excavations of Two “National” Marae Complexes on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia - A Preliminary Report

Paul Wallin and Reidar Solsvik

13

Catastrophe on an Enchanted Island: Floreana, Galápagos, Ecuador

Hans-Rudolf Bork and Andreas Mieth

25

Cannibalism and Easter Island: Evaluation, Discussion of Probabilities, and Survey of the Literature on the Subject

Shawn McLaughlin

30

A Moai in Michelangelo Marble

Francesco di Castri

51

A Possible Medicine-Making Stone in the Upper Tofol Drainage, Kosrae, Micronesia

Felicia Beardsley

53

Getting to Know You: John Flenley

56

VI International Conference in Reñaca, 2004

57

A Look Back:

 

The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wales, 1794-1799

61

Reviews:

 

Easter Island - Rapa Nui: Scientific Pathways to Secrets of the Past by Andreas Mieth, et al.

Ann M. Altman

 

Escape from Easter Island (Les Évadés d l’Île de Pâques) by Marie-Françoise Peteuil

Ann M. Altman

 

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Vincent Lee

 

Motu-Iti: Die Insel der Möwen (Island of Seagulls) by Roberto Piumini

Andrea Wagner

 

Moon Handbooks South Pacific, 8th edition, by David Stanley

Georgia Lee

64

Letters to the Editor

67

Moai Sightings

65

What’s New in the Pacific

69

What’s New in Hangaroa

69

Publications

73

Easter Island Foundation News

74

 

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Volume 19, Number 2 • October 2005

 

From the Editors

81

An Excavated Tiki Pendant from Rurutu, Austral Islands

Robert Bollt

85

Material Choice and Travel Time in Ancient Polynesia: An Experimental Perspective on Basalt Adze Exchange

Ernest H. Winterhoff

91

Soil Nutrient Depletion and the Collapse of Rapa Nui Society

Thegn Ladefoged, Christopher Stevenson, Peter Vitousek, and Oliver Chadwick

100

Getting to Know You: Christopher M. Stevenson

106

Allographic Varieties and Statistical Analysis of Rongorongo Script

Paul Horley

107

Stone Statuettes from Easter Island

Georgia Lee

117

Sailing ship and Dog-Poni: Historic Petroglyphs on Nuku Hiva, the Marquesas Islands

Sidsel Millerstrom and Richard W. Rogers

120

A Look Back:

 

Diary of a Cadet on the Warship La Flore - 1872 (Pierre Loti)

Translated by Ann M. Altman

127

Reviews:

 

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, an Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Eric Kjellgren and Carol S. Ivory

Christina Hellmich

 

Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California by Terry L. Jones, et al.

Scott Nicolay

 

Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer

Scott Nicolay

 

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands by Eric Kjellgren and Carol S. Ivory

Georgia Lee

 

Kibo: Le Serment gravé. Essai de synth se sur les pétroslyphes calédoniens by Jean Monnin, et al.

Georgia Lee

 

In Search of Lemuria: The Lost Pacific Continent in Legend, Myth and Imagination by Mark R. Williams

Editors of the Rapa Nui Journal

 

Rapa Nui: Patrimonio natural y cultural by Ema Maldonado Gac, et al.

Ximena Ceardi

 

The Moai Murders by Lyn Hamilton

Georgia Lee

140

Moai Sightings

145

What’s New in the Pacific

145

What’s New in Hanga Roa

149

Publications

154
EIF News 155

 

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Volume 20, Number 1 • May 2006

 

From the Editors

7
Dating Ritual Structures in Maeva, Huahine: Assessing the Development of Marae Structures in the Leeward Society Islands, French Polynesia
Paul Wallin and Reidar Solsvik
9
New Data from Poike (Rapa Nui-Easter Island): Dynamic Architecture of a Series of Ahu
Nicolas Cauwe, Dirk Huyge, Johnny De Meulemeester, Morgan De Dapper, Dominique Coupé, Wouter Claes, and Alexandra De Poorter
31
Moai of Easter Island: A Quest for Ideal Proportions
Paul Horley
37

Moai Move – A Student Design Project at MIT
Herbert H. Einstein

41
General Properties of the Rongorongo Writing
Jacques B.M. Guy
53
Easter Island: On the Verge of a Second Environmental Catastrophe
Petra Campbell
67
Moai Mail: Stamp Collecting and Easter Island
Stephen Pendleton

71

Getting to Know You: George W. Gill

75

Reviews:

 

The Reñaca papers: VI International Conference on Rapa Nui and the Pacific by Christopher M. Stevenson, et al. (eds.)

Dave Tuggle

 

Archaeology of Oceania. Australia and the Pacific Islands by Ian Lilley (ed.)

Georgia lee

 

Easter Island and Its Mysteries by Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (Ann M. Altman, trans.; Shawn McLaughlin, ed.)

Paul Horley

77
Publications 79

‘A Pó: The Rapanui Youth Program

81
Easter Island: Total Area
Claudio Cristino and Roberto Izaurieta
81
Artistic Aggression
Beverley Haun
82

What’s New in the Pacific

84

What’s New in Hanga Roa

86

Enduring Rapa Nui: The 2005 Marathon
Susie Rutherford

87
Easter Island Foundation News 88

 

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Volume 20, Number 2 • October 2006

 

VII Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific 92

From the Editors

95
Economics and the Easter Island Metaphor
Thomas R. Dalton, R. Morris Coats, and Leon Taylor
97
Traditional Marquesan Agriculture and Subsistence: The Historical Evidence. Part I of IV – General Descriptions, Garden Locations, the Agricultural Calendar, Hydrology and Soils, Cultigens, and Agricultural Techniques
David J. Addison
111
An Experiment in the Replication and Classification of Easter Island Mata‘a
Robert Bollt, Jesse E. Clark, Philip R. Fisher, and Hirosato K. Yoshida
125
A Look Back:

Three Voyages of a Naturalist. Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the “Valhalla” R.Y.S.
M. J. Nicoll

134
Nicolay N. Miklouho-Maclay – A Great Humanist, Scientist and Explorer
Paul Horley
138

Getting to Know You: Helene Martinsson-Wallin

140

Reviews:

 

"Beyond Horrible" - a review of Blue Planet & Beyond by Jeffrey T. Barbour

Shawn McLaughlin

 

The Sweet Potato in Oceania: a Reappraisal by Chris Ballard, et al. (eds.)

Scott Nicolay

141
Publications 146
Moai Sightings 146
What's New in the Pacific 147
What's New in Hanga Roa 148
An Exhibition about the 1955/56 Norwegian Archeological Expedition to Rapa Nui
O.I.R. Andreassen
150
Teach Yourself Rapanui
P. Campbell
152
Conferences 153
Easter Island Foundation News 153

 

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Volume 21, Number 1 • May 2007

 

From the Editors

4

VII Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific

5

Botanical Identification of the Wood of the Large Kohau Rongorongo tablet of St Petersburg

Catherine Orliac

7

Conflicting Views of Easter Island

John Flenley and Paul Bahn

11

Mythologizing the History of Easter Island Through Documentary Films

Laura Jean Boyd

14

Easter Island-Inspired Board Games

Ben Baldanza

23

Structural Analysis of Rongorongo Inscriptions

Paul Horley

25

Traditional Marquesan Agriculture, Part II of IV

David J. Addison

33

A Look Back:

 

An Easter Island Report from 1869 by W.A. Powell

Annotated by Shawn McLaughlin

58

The Admiral Byrd Antarctic Expedition on Easter Island, 1933

John H. Bryant

61

Getting to Know You: Vincent Stefan

62

Review and Discission: "Polynesian Seafaring and American horizons…"; and, "On Open Minds and Missed marks…"

Scott Nicolay

64

Reviews:

 

Rapa Nui, Island of Memory by Georgia Lee

Paul Bahn

 

Tattoo Traditions of Hawaii by Mark Blackburn

Georgia Lee

 

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Scott Nicolay

 

Rapa Nui: Guardianes de la Tradicion by Maria Eugenia Santa Coloma

Steven Roger Fischer

 

The Day the Stones Walked by T.A. Barron

Tom Christopher

66

Publications

72

Moai Sightings

72

What's New in the Pacific

73

What's New in Hanga Roa

76
Obituary: Francesco di Castri 78
Easter Island Foundation News 79
Poetry Corner 80

 

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Volume 21, Number 2 • October 2007

 

From the Editors

84

Chronology, Deforestation, and "Collapse:" Evidence vs. Faith in Rapa Nui Prehistory

Terry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo

84

Respect Versus Contempt for Evidence. Reply to Hunt and Lipo

John Flenley, Paul Bahn, and Kevin Butler

85

The Mystery Lies in the Scirpus

Candace Gossen

105

Traditional Marquesan Agriculture and Subsistence: Ownership, Division of Labor, Feasting, Drought/Famine, and Fishing/Canoe-travel. Part III of IV

David J. Addison

111

Modern Rapanui Petroglyphs

Georgia Lee

128

The Implications of the Sweet Potato’s Re-appraisal

Shawn McLaughlin

130

Scenes from the VII Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Gotland, Sweden

136

A Look Back:

 

The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe González in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1

Annotations by the Editors with assistance from Shawn McLaughlin

139

Getting to Know You: Michel Orliac

153

Reviews:

 

The Dynamics of Soil, Landscape, and Culture on Easter Island (Chile) by A. Mieth and H-R Bork.

Shawn McLaughlin

 

Life and Solitude on Easter Island by Verdugo-Binmelis.  Shawn McLaughlin

 

Isla de Pascua. El sueno imposible de Antoni Pujador by Francesc Amoros.

Maria Eugenia Santa Coloma

154

Publications

162

Letters to the Editor

162

Moai Sightings

163

What's New in the Pacific

164

What's New in Hanga Roa

164

Easter Island Foundation News

167

 

   
   

Editorial Advisory Board

 

Paul G. Bahn

Felicia R. Beardsley

Riet Delsing

Norman Hurst

Georgia Lee

William Liller

Grant McCall

Shawn McLaughlin

Frank Morin

Scott Nicolay

Christopher M. Stevenson

Paul Wallin

Helene Martinsson-Wallin

     
   

Information for Contributors

 

Rapa Nui Journal welcomes articles in English concerning archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, and history of Easter Island and Polynesia as well as current news and events of other Pacific islands. Correspondence, articles, photographs, book reviews, and announcements of conferences are invited. Prospective contributors should refer to extant issues of the Journal or the Chicago Manual of Style (1993). Manuscripts are evaluated by the editors in consultation with referees. Illustrations should be in a form (paper or electronic) that will allow clear reproduction. If possible, please send submissions on disk. We are not responsible for unsolicited items or submissions sent without adequate return postage.

     
   

The views of contributors are not necessarily

those of the Editors or the Foundation.

     
   

All proceeds benefit the Easter Island Foundation.

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