Part 1: Statues Rapa Nui and its moai Not only is it one of the most isolated places on Earth - it also has hundreds of spectacular and mysterious stone statues that guard over it. Click here for more... Part 2: Construction The mystery of the "walking" statues One of the unanswered questions about Easter Island is how the giant statues got from A to B. But that hasn't stopped people from taking educated guesses. Click here for more... Part 3: Rise and Fall Is big ...

[MCC Anthro Discussion Web] [asb222] [articles] [projects] [discussion] ASB 222 buried cities and lost tribes Article Reviews Inside the Royal Tombs of the Moche (Angela M. H. Schuster) Archaeology, November 1992 reviewed by: Valerie Dorland, Shawn Rutledge, Matt Steadman Archeologists uncover civilizations that have given insight into the ancient worlds and the customs of past human behavior. Egyptian tombs, Aztec ruins, and the spellbinding wonder of Stonehenge are examples ...

Search:The WebAngelfire Gear Factor Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLOGICAS DE AREQUIPA Center for Archaeological Research in Arequipa CIARQ PARA VER LA VERSION ESPAÑOL DE ESTA PAGINA HAGA CLICK AQUI The Center for Archaeological Research in Arequipa (CIARQ) is a non-profit organization that exists to conduct archaeological research and public education on archaeology and preservation in ...

The Easter Island Project Press: PBS, preview of the NOVA segment LAWeekly, 2000 LATimes, 1995 For a photo gallery of the project and Easter Island click HERE. The objective of this project was to develop and demonstrate a transport model for moving an average size statue (Moai) on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) that is rooted in the local culture and is based on materials and technology available to the Rapanui people. I joined this project when Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Researc ...

Easter Island Stone image at Tahai, Rapanui (Easter Island), at an early stage of the restoration. At this point the image, along with a red scoria topknot, has been repositioned on the central platform of the ceremonial center, or ahu, called Ko te Riku. I first conducted Pacific archaeology at a major complex of ceremonial architecture at Tahai on Rapanui, more widely know as Easter Island, This west coast center, a set of three stone structures supporting the famous stone ...

Images of sites in Easter Island. This resource provides images of sites in Easter Island from Clive Ruggles's on-line image resource, including Ahu Akivi, Anakena, Orongo and Rano Raraku. Links provide access to Ruggles's wider ollection of images of archaeological and archaeoastronomical interest from Britain and all over the world.

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Project Sites El Brujo Santa Rosa-Quirihuac Ciudad de Dios North Coast Cultural Chronology Multi-colored Murals Moche Pottery Graduate Research Projects Northern Arizona University Moche Foodways Archaeological Project 1997-2000 Welcome to the Moche Foodways Archaeological Proje ...

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In September 1996, high-altitude archaeologist Johan Reinhard led an expedition to the summit of Sara Sara in Peru in search of frozen sacrificial mummies. Reinhard's expedition was filmed by the BBC as part of the three-part series "Ice Mummies" and documented on this Web site as a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure. Here you'll find daily accounts and images from the expedition, e-mail questions and the responses from the team, and much more. Text Inca Home | The Expedition | Mummies | ...

This is the story of a team of archaeologists and a 75-person crew who sought to unravel a central mystery of Easter Island: how hundreds of giant stone statues that dominate the island's coast were moved and erected. For one month, the team struggled to raise a 10-ton moai, using only the tools and materials available to the ancient Easter Islanders. Photo: © Cliff Wassmann Text Secrets Home | Move a Megalith | Dispatches | Explore the Island | Lost Civilization Resources | E-mail | Table of Contents NOVA Online | Editor's Picks | Previous Sites | Join Us/E-mail | TV/Web Schedule About NOVA | Teachers | Site Map | Shop | Jobs | Search | To print NOVA Online is produced for PBS by the WGBH Science Unit © 1998 WGBH and PBS | created April 1998

Pathology gone to pot: Paleopathology on Mochica ceramics Arthur Gryfe MD FRCPC Director of Laboratory Medicine, Queensway General Hospital, Etobicoke, Ontario Paleopathology is the study of disease in ancient cultures. Information in this area is usually acquired by examining human remains. Usually, these consist of dry bones, which provide little or no information of interest to the plastic surgeon. Even when soft tissues have been preserved by artificial or natural mummificat ...

Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Peopling of South America Volume 49 Number 4, July/August 1996 by Jessica E. Saraceni and Adriana Franco de Sá A cave in the Amazon River basin near the town of Monte Alegre in northern Brazil has yielded evidence that people migrating from North to South America some 11,000 years ago did not settle exclusively in the Andes a ...

Geological and Paleontological Sites of Brazil - 098 THE HISTORICAL JARAGUÁ GOLD EXCAVATIONS Date: 11/09/2000 Celso Dal Ré Carneiro cedrec@ige.unicamp.br Instituto de Geociências - UNICAMP Depart. Geociencias Aplicadas ao Ensino - Caixa Postal 6152 13083-970 Campinas SP Fone: (0xx19) 788-4564 ou 788-4568 Fax: (019) 289-1562 ou 289-1097 © Carneiro,C.D.R. 2000. The historical Jaraguá gold excavations. In: Schobbenhaus,C.; Campos,D.A.; Queiroz,E.T.; Winge,M.; Berbert-Born,M. (Edit ...

Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Talking Knots of the Inka Volume 49 Number 6, November/December 1996 by Viviano Domenici and Davide Domenici The controversial Naples Manuscript (Viviano Domenici) [LARGER IMAGE, 40K] An Inka accounting system that used knotted strings called quipus to record numerical data has long been known to scholars. The complexity ...