0
Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island
Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ted Ralston, 2005. In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306.
The Easter Island Statue Project's transport experiment, filmed for NOVA: rollers jammed, so a sledge sliding on a canoe-ladder track was used, and 40 people pulled a 10-tonne replica lying down.
What it's used for here
The main experimental case for horizontal transport.
Our copy
Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
eisp.org · fetched 29 Oct 2026
Loading…
Cited by on this site 1 record
The Easter Island moai
MYSThe mystery article
Cite it
Van Tilburg, J. A., & Ralston, T. (2005). Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island. In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306. https://www.eisp.org/544/
@incollection{vantilburg2005megaliths,
author = {Van Tilburg, Jo Anne and Ralston, Ted},
title = {Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island},
booktitle = {In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306},
year = {2005},
url = {https://www.eisp.org/544/}
}TY - CHAP TI - Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island AU - Van Tilburg, Jo Anne AU - Ralston, Ted PY - 2005 JO - In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306 UR - https://www.eisp.org/544/ ER -
Van Tilburg, Jo Anne and Ted Ralston. “Megaliths and mariners: experimental archaeology on Easter Island.” In K. L. Johnson (ed.), Onward and Upward! Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, Stansbury Publishing, Chico, pp. 279–306 (2005).