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Speech & Term Paper Topics: Easter Island

Websites:

Easter Island Foundation and Easter Island Guidebook
Guide to Easter Island.

Easter Island in Words and Pictures
Theories on the construction of the Moai and images.

NOVA Online – Secrets of Easter Island
“This is the story of a team of archaeologists and a 75-person crew who sought to unravel a central mystery of Easter Island: how hundreds of giant stone statues that dominate the island's coast were moved and erected.”

Books:

Heyerdahl, T. (1958). Aku-Aku, the secret of Easter Island. Chicago: Rand McNally.
Call Number: F3169 .H413

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
New York: Penguin, 2006

Loret, John. Easter Island: scientific exploration into the world's environmental problems in microcosm
New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003

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