Easter Island in context : from paradise to calamity / Crew Neck Productions ; written, produced, and directed by Peter A. Steen ; executive producer, John Scheinfeld ; released by Adler Media.
"When Dutch sailors landed on Easter Island, they found a warlike people recovering from anarchy and cannibalism. What had gone wrong with a civilization that had lived in peace for nearly a thousand years? In this program, Claudio Cristino, the island's resident archaeologist; William Liller, of th...
| Uniform Title: | History's artifacts.
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
[2002], ©2002.
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| Series: | History's artifacts.
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (51 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Variant Title: |
Mysteries of Easter Island. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
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"When Dutch sailors landed on Easter Island, they found a warlike people recovering from anarchy and cannibalism. What had gone wrong with a civilization that had lived in peace for nearly a thousand years? In this program, Claudio Cristino, the island's resident archaeologist; William Liller, of the Easter Island Foundation; Patricia Vargas Casanova, of the Easter Island Studies Institute at the University of Chile; and others offer their views on moai, rongorongo tablets, the Birdman Cult, and the devastating effects of overpopulation, to provide a captivating glimpse of a complex culture driven to the brink of extinction"--Container. |
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| Note: | Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | F3169 .E27 2002 VideoDVD |
| Credits: | Editor, Jeannette Christensen ; assistant editor, Peter S. Lynch, II ; researchers, Lesie A. Coffee, Peter S. Lynch, II, Sharon Manning ; associate producer, Alexandra C. Mende. |
| System Details: | DVD. |
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Narrator, Fred Applegate. |
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Title from disc label and container. |