She has directed large-scale inter-disciplinary landscape projects on past environments and their archaeology in the UK, Europe, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island). She is now on sabbatical completing writing-up a decade of work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and her new book, The Making of Rapa Nui. Sue Hamilton is Professor of Prehistory at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and has just completed an 8-year term as its Director. It concludes by considering the role of persistent heritages, and their material remains, in supporting, renewing, and powerfully resituating contemporary Rapanui identities in a Polynesian context. It explores concepts of colonising empty islands and the roles of ideologies in the making of place, and how this is materialised in architectures, artefacts, and successful landscape management. Within this range of context, the lecture presents the multi-scalar island-wide fieldwork of the Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project. Equally, this has facilitated the island's use and misuse by scholars as a microcosm for generating global perspectives on pressing contemporary issues such as the mismanagement of resources and the impacts of colonial encounter on small-scale societies. Isolated from other lands by the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, Rapa Nui affords great potential for micro-historical analysis of the island's archaeology as a ‘whole’. AD 1200, and for the apparent sudden end of this tradition four to six hundred years later. It is known for the colossal stone statues sculptured by its earliest communities c. Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is a tiny, remote Pacific island.
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