Forthcoming

This volume is the first illustrated archaeological atlas of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Discovered by Polynesian explorers ca. 900 CE, Rapanui society encountered the Western world for the first time in 1722, an event followed by 48 years of isolation until the next foreign ship appeared on the horizon. That liminal period, and other formidable events in Rapanui culture history, are examined through an integrated, art-and-science approach and a contextually holistic research strategy.

About the middle of the first millennium BC, continental East Asia saw the rise of a market economy in which a metallic currency was beginning to play an important role. The following centuries were a time of unprecedented economic florescence.

The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (CPAS), was an international collaborative archaeological project that took place over the course of five field seasons starting in 2005 under the direction of Rowan Flad (Harvard), Pochan Chen (National Taiwan University), Gwen Bennett (Washington University, St. Louis / McGill), Jiang Zhanghua (Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology) and Li Shuicheng (Peking University). The survey involved a multi-faced archaeological investigation of site locations and landscape use in an area of approximately 350 km2 surrounding two Neolithic walled sites (ca.