AMS 14C age determinations of Rapanui (Easter Island) wood sculpture
Moai kavakava ET 48.63 from Brussels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3781666 |
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| Authors | Francina Forment (Royal Museums of Art and History), Dirk Huyge (Royal Museums of Art and History), Helene Valladas (0000-0002-1858-0782, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 289 |
| Pages | 529-532 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00088748 |
| OpenAlex | W2474104502 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Direct dating, using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C method, of a wooden moai kavakava (anthropomorphic woodcarving) in the collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels has given a date of about cal AD 1390-1480. As there are reasons to believe that this age not only regards the raw material but also the carving itself, preserved examples of Easter Island wood sculpture may be much older than previously assumed and possibly contemporaneous with the giant monolithic sculpture of the first half of the 2nd millennium AD
Accelerator mass spectrometry · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Carving · Radiocarbon dating · Sculpture · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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