Claudio Cristino

About The Author

Patricia Vargas Casanova and Claudio Cristino, archaeologists, anthropologists, professors, and founders of the University of Chile's Easter Island and Oceania Studies Centre created the island's archaeology survey of over twenty thousand archaeological sites and were awarded the international Explorers Club prestigious Lowell Thomas Award (2011) for their life's work on Easter Island.

Books by Claudio Cristino

Easter Island's Silent Sentinels

The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui

By Kenneth Treister, Patricia Vargas Casanova and Claudio Cristino
Foreword by Daniel Libeskind
It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, m...
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