Rapa Nui (Easter Island)’s Stone Worlds

• DOI: 10.5334/ai.1613
• Publication Date: 2013-10-24T12:56:56Z
• Authors: Sue Hamilton
• Keywords: Plucking; Statue

This article explores the spatial, architectural and conceptual relationships between landscape places, stone quarrying, moving building during Rapa Nui’s statue-building period. These are central themes of ‘Rapa Nui Landscapes Construction Project’ discussed using aspects findings our recent fieldwork. The different scales expression, from detail domestic sphere to monumental working quarries, considered. It is suggested that impressiveness architecture its coherence at small scale as much large scale.