Thanks to Dale Simpson for the interview and for sharing his fantastic slides and images for this video.
Chapters:
3:08. Rapa Nui 101. Introduction to island and archaeology
14:28. The scale of scholarship and study on the island
19:08. The problematic myth of “Collapse.”
23:40. Moving the Moai
30:29. The red stone: pukao
33:27. The basalt.
43:22. Mines, quarries, and other stones
48:14. Conclusion: the geologists of their time
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Keywords: archaeology, history, prehistory, geology, Easter Island, Rapa Nui, lithics, stone working, statues, geoarchaeology, Polynesia
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