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Jo Anne Van Tilburg Jo Anne Van Tilburg is the Director of the Easter Island Statue Project, a comprehensive field inventory and stylistic analysis of the monolithic statues for which the island is world-famous. Her research interest centers on the integration of symbolic and social processes and the interactive roles of art, history and ecology in Pacific island cultures. As Director of the Rock Art Archive since 1995, Dr. Van Tilburg has developed a program centered on procedural reorganization, staff stabilization, innovation of new data management strategies and the development and implementation of cutting-edge digital field recording methods. |
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Dr. Van Tilburg also teaches rock art field and laboratory methods through UCLA Extension. The Archive’s major research project is Captured Visions, a report of spatial and correspondence analyses of rock art symbols collected under controlled conditions at Little Lake, Inyo County, California. Dr. Van Tilburg’s bibliography of published work is extensive, and her most recent publication is “Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island” (Scribner’s 2003). She lectures extensively, and her work has been featured on BBC Horizon, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and PSB Nova. A biographical sketch of her career was presented by Charles Osgood on CBS Sunday Morning. She is a Research Associate of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). In 2005, Dr
Van Tilburg was appointed to the U.S. National Landmarks Commission. Bibliography of Published Work Most Recent Publication: Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island. New York: Scribner’s, 2003. Archaeology:
Easter Island and Oceania Pre-dissertation Publications, 1982-1986 “Easter Island rock art.” With G. Lee. Archaeology, Nov./Dec., 1982 “Three unusual stone figures from Easter Island.” Paper read and abstract published, 4th Annual Meeting of the So. Ca. Colloquium on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and Native America. UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 5 May 1984. “Easter Island: New Pieces in an Ancient Puzzle.” Archaeology, July/August, pp. 58-61, 1984. “Easter Island statues.” Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional Isla de Pascua y Polinesia Oriental, C. Cristino, P. Vargas and R. Izaurieta, eds. Santiago: Instituto de Estudios, Universidad de Chile, 1985. “Power and symbol: The stylistic analysis of Easter Island monolithic sculpture.” Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, 1986a “Red scoria on Easter Island: Sculpture, artifacts, architecture. In B. Dillon, ed. Journal of New World Archaeology, vol. VII, no. 1. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Archaeology, pp. 1-28, 1986b Post-dissertation Publications, 1987-1990 “Symbolic archaeology on Easter Island.” Archaeology March/April, pp. 26-33, 1987a. “Larger than life: The form and function of Easter Island monolithic sculpture.” In Musées Royaux D’Art et D’Histoire Bulletin vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 111-130, 1987b. “Symbolic stratigraphy: Rock art and the monolithic statues of Easter Island” with G. Lee, World Archaeology 19 (2), 133-45, 1987c. “Stylistic variation of dorsal design on Easter Island statues.” In Clava, J.M. Ramírez, ed. Museo Sociedad Fonck 4, 95-108, Viña del Mar, Chile, 1988a. “Easter Island statue type, part two: The moai as socio-political feature.” With L. González and P. Vargas. In Archaeology, vol. 1, First International Congress Easter Island and East Polynesia, C. Cristino, P. Vargas, R. Izaurieta and R. Budd, eds. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, pp. 150-164, 1988b. “Easter Island statue type, part three: The moai as ideological symbol.” In Archaeology, vol. 1, First International Congress Easter Island and East Polynesia, C. Cristino, P. Vargas, R. Izaurieta and R. Budd, eds. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, PP. 164-173, 1988c. “Transition and transformation of Easter Island sculpture: Recent archaeological evidence.” With P. Vargas. Paper read and abstract published, 12th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, [n.d.] 1988d. “Easter Island statue project: 1989 field season preliminary report.” MS on file, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. [n.d.] 1989. “Respect for Rapa Nui: Exhibition and conservation of Easter Island stone statues.” Antiquity 64, 49-58. 1990a. “Assessment of damage to Easter Island statues.” Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, nos. 1 and 2, pp. 26-29, Jan. and July, 1990b. 1991-2003 “Easter Island statue project.” Report on file, Consejo de Monumentos, Santiago de Chile, [n.d.] 1991. “Anthropomorphic stone monoliths on the islands of Oreor and Babeldaob, Republic of Belau (Pelau), Micronesia.” Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Occasional Paper 31, 3-62. 1991a. “Easter Island: The mystery solved.” Review. Archaeology, Jan./Feb., pp. 74-9, 1991b. “Easter Island disaster.” Archaeology March/April, 1991c. “HMS Topaze on Easter Island: Hoa Hakanana’a and five other museum sculptures in archaeological context.” London: British Museum Press Occasional Paper 73, 1992a. “Stone sentinels.” In Mysteries of Mankind. G. Stuart, ed. Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society Special Publications, 70-91, 1992b. “Land of Projection.” In Land of Projection, a media installation by B. Yonemoto and N. Yonemoto. Los Angeles: Japanese American Cultural Center, Jan./Feb, 1992c. “The use of photogrammetry, laser scan and computer assisted drafting to define relationships between Easter Island statue morphology, transport technology and social organization.” In The Evolution and Organisation of Prehistoric Society in Polynesia, M.W. Graves and R.C. Green, eds. New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 19, 87-102, 1993a. “First Heyerdahl, now Hollywood.” Archaeology, 46 (4), 72, 1993b. “When the experts make mistakes: Observations on the preservation of Easter Island monolithic sculpture.” In P.J.C. Dark and R.G. Rose, eds. Artistic Heritage of a Changing Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 25-34, 1993c. Easter Island Archaeology, Ecology and Culture. London, British Museum Press and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. “Moving the moai: Transporting the megaliths of Easter Island: How did they do it?” Archaeology, Jan./Feb.: 34-43. 1995 “Katherine Scoresby Routledge and the Mana Expedition to Easter Island in 1914-15: Two Exhibitions, in Easter Island and London.” Pacific Arts nos. 11 & 12, p. 103-04, 1996. “Easter Island (Rapa Nui) archaeology since 1955: Some thoughts on progress, problems and potential.” In Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green. J.M. Davidson et al eds. Auckland: New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication, pp. 555-577, 1996a. “Mechanics, logistics and economics of transporting Easter Island (Rapa Nui) statues. Rapa Nui Journal, vol. 10 (4), 110-115, 1996b. “Experimental archaeology on Easter Island: Moving and Erecting Monolithic Sculpture.” Paper delivered at Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Chicago, 1999. “Double Canoes on Easter Island? Reassessing the Orongo Petroglyph Evidence” In P. Vargas, ed. Easter Island and East Polynesian Prehistory. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 131-146, 1999. “Easter Island Statue Inventory and Documentation: A Status Report,” with P. Vargas in P. Vargas (ed.) Easter Island and East Polynesian Prehistory. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 187-194, 1999. “Engineers of Easter Island” with T. Ralston. Archaeology Nov./Dec. Reprinted in Archaeology: Annual Editions, McGraw Hill/Dushkin, 105-109, 1999. “Easter Island.” In P.N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 3 East Asia and Oceania. New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, 2000. “Changing Faces: Rapa Nui Statues in the Social Landscape.” In. E. Kjellgren, ed. Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University, 24-31, 2000. Review: “Death of a Moai: Easter Island Statues: Their Nature, Deterioration and Conservation. A. Elena Charola. In Pacific Arts, The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, nos. 23, 24, p. 120, 2000. “Statues and Survival on Easter Island.” In B. Fagin, ed. The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World. London: Thames and Hudson, 211-215, 2001. “The Rapa Nui Carver’s Perspective: Notes and Observations on the Experimental Replication of Monolithic Sculpture (Moai), with C. Arévalo Pakarati. In A. Herle et al. eds. Changing Themes in the Study of Pacific Art. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Obituary: “Thor Heyerdahl.” In The Guardian 19 April 2002. “O.G.S. Crawford and the Mana Expedition to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), 1913-1915. Journal of the Polynesian Society 111(1), 65-78, 2002. “Easter Island’s Ethnographic Triangle: Métraux, Routledge, and Juan Tepano.” Paper delivered in the Smithsonian Institution’s invited symposium, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, The Ethnographer’s Discipline: Alfred Métraux (1906-1963) in his Centenary,2002. “Towards and New Perspective on Rapa Nui: A Data-Rich Model for Archaeological Explanation and Reconstruction” (with C. Cristino F., P. Vargas C.). Paper prepared for the Society of American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting, Denver, 2003. “Archaeological Data Interpretation, the Polynesian Cosmogonic Tradition, and Moai Style” (with P. Vargas C. and C. Cristino F.). Paper prepared for the Society of American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting, Denver, 2003. “Sourcing Easter Island’s Trachyte Statues” (with I. Meighan and B.N. Hartwell). Worlds apart? Human settlement and biota of Islands. Paper presented at the Association for Environmental Archaeology Symposium, School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, 24-25 April, 2003. “Spirited Explorer: Katherine Routledge’s encounter with the mysteries of Easter Island.” Archaeology. September/October, 50-53, 2003. “Isola de Pasqua.” In Gaetano Confini (ed.) Redazione Archeologica. Rome, 2003. “Megaliths
and Mariners: Canoe Technology Moves the Moai of Easter Island.”
With T. Ralston. In K.L. Johnson, ed. Essays in Honor of Clement
W. Meighan, Academic Press. In press (2004). “Hoa Hakananai’a.” London: The British Museum Press, 2004. “Hoa Hakananai’a and H.M.S. Topaze on Easter Island.” London: The British Museum Press Occasional Paper. In prep (2004). On-Going Original Database Research “Easter Island State Project.” Computerized Database, Easter Island Monolithic Statues. 1981-2004. California Rock Art, 1981-2004 “Rock art of California.” The Exchange, Journal of Native American Philanthropic News., vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 19-21, 1981a. Prehistoric Indian rock art: Issues and concerns. Report of the 1980 conference proceedings. J. Van Tilburg and C.W. Meighan, eds. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph XIX, 1981b. “Conference follow-up: New directions” In Prehistoric Indian rock art: Issues and concerns. J. Van Tilburg and C.W. Meighan, eds. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Monograph XIX, 1981c. Ancient Images on Stone, ed. Special Publication, UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 1982b. “Of art and artists: The rock art of California.” In Ancient Images on Stone J. Van Tilburg, ed. Special Publication, UCLA Institute of Archaeology, 1986c. “Rock art: Treasures of ancient America.” Review. American Anthropologist, 1984. “Hidden places.” Review. Archaeology. March/April, 1985. The Church Rock Petroglyph Site: Field Documentation and Preliminary Analysis. With. F. Bock and A.J.Bock. Redding Museum Occasional Paper 4, 1987. “Rock Art Archive: Twenty years of rock art tradition at UCLA.” Handbook and Mission Statement, [n.d.] 1997 (reissued, 1998). “Lavic Lake: Computerized database of photographic imagery.” UCLA Rock Art Archive and NREA Directorate, 1999. “Foxtrot: Computerized database of photographic imagery.” UCLA Rock Art Archive and NREA Directorate, 1999. “Clement W. Meighan and the Rock Art of the Channel Islands: Afterward.” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 36 (2), 25-29, 2000. On-going Original Database Research “Little Lake: Computerized database of photographic imagery.” UCLA Rock Art Archive. “Captured Visions.” UCLA Rock Art Archive.
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