The Lost Gods of Easter Island
- A Blank on the Map
- Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
- Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages
The Lost Gods of Easter Island is a 2000 BBC documentary written and presented by David Attenborough. It explores the history of the civilization of remote Easter Island. It was first transmitted in 2000 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages collection of seven documentaries.
Attenborough embarks on a personal quest to uncover the history of a strange wooden figurine carving which he purchased after it turned up in an auction room in New York during the 1980s. It is crafted from wood of the Toromiro tree, Sophora toromiro, now extinct in the wild.
The auction catalogue indicated that the carving was from Easter Island and the auctioneers told him that the sculpture had come from a junk-shop dealer in Pennsylvania. He knew that the, "grotesque head, attached to a body grossly elongated and as thin as a stick," was more important than the auctioneers believed it to be and had such presence and power that he bought it.
He began an investigation to trace the origins of the artifact—an investigation that spans the globe and leads him on voyages to Russia, Australia, England, the Pacific, a Tahiti beach and finally to one of the most remote places on earth; and 15 years later, in a personal detective story that combines art, anthropology, and history traces the origin of the carving and in doing so tells the story of a forgotten civilization and of a people who inhabited one of the most remote places on Earth.
References
External links
- The Lost Gods of Easter Island at IMDb
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- Life on Earth (1979)
- The Living Planet (1984)
- The Trials of Life (1990)
- Life in the Freezer (1993)
- The Private Life of Plants (1995)
- The Life of Birds (1998)
- The Life of Mammals (2002)
- Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
- Life in Cold Blood (2008)
- Planet Earth (2006)
- Planet Earth II (2016)
- Planet Earth III (2023)
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- David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities (episodes) (2013–17)
- When Björk Met Attenborough (2013)
- Our Planet (2019)
- Wild Karnataka (2019)
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
- Breaking Boundaries (2021)
- Prehistoric Planet (2022)
and films
- Flying Monsters 3D (2010)
- The Penguin King (2011)
- Kingdom of Plants 3D (2012)
- Galapagos 3D (2013)
- David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014)
- David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (2015)
- Attenborough in Paradise (2005)
- The Life Collection (2005)
- Life on Land (2008)
- David Attenborough's Life Stories (2009–11)
- Tweet of the Day (2013–14)
- A Life on Our Planet (2020)
- Frederick Attenborough (father)
- Richard Attenborough (brother)
- John Attenborough (brother)
- Michael Attenborough (nephew)
- Jane Attenborough (niece)
- Charlotte Attenborough (niece)
- Tom Attenborough (great nephew)
- Will Attenborough (great nephew)
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