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The monumental statues of Easter Island, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been a great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific, have built such monumental works, and moved them from the quarry where they were carved to the coast? And if the island once boasted a culture sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? The prevailing accounts of the island's history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. But when Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they uncovered a very different truth: they show that the Easter Islanders were remarkably inventive environmental stewards, rich with lessons for confronting the daunting environmental challenges of our own time.--From publisher description.

Polynesians --- Prehistoric peoples --- Sculpture, Prehistoric --- Antiquities --- Easter Island --- Antiquities.

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Archaeoastronomy --- Neolithic period --- Sculpture, Prehistoric --- Lepenski Vir Site (Serbia)

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Neolithic period --- Sculpture, Prehistoric --- Stele (Archaeology) --- Musée Calvet (Avignon, France) --- Provence (France) --- Antiquities

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Sculpture, Polynesian --- Sculpture, Prehistoric --- Statues --- Stone carving --- History --- Topaze (Frigate) --- Easter Island --- Easter Island --- Antiquities. --- History.

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"This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison wtih other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--

Bronze age --- Art, Prehistoric --- Sculpture, Prehistoric --- Figurines, Prehistoric --- Mother goddesses --- Mother and child in art. --- Age du Bronze --- Art préhistorique --- Sculpture préhistorique --- Figurines préhistoriques --- Déesses mères --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Mothers in art --- Antiquities --- Mothers in art. --- Art préhistorique --- Sculpture préhistorique --- Figurines préhistoriques --- Déesses mères --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Mother and child in art --- Prehistoric sculpture --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Goddesses --- Prehistoric figurines --- Statuettes, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Prehistoric art --- Art, Primitive --- Sculpture --- Bronze age - Mediterranean Region --- Art, Prehistoric - Mediterranean Region --- Sculpture, Prehistoric - Mediterranean Region --- Figurines, Prehistoric - Mediterranean Region --- Mother goddesses - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - Antiquities