Conference week assign 1

For part one of the assignments, I read the article, “If only they could talk” by Hannah Bloch. This article initially drew me by its interesting title. It got me first thinking of what could this author possibly be talking about and what she could want to be hearing from these things that supposedly can’t talk. As I got into the article some more and realized that it was the Easter Island heads that she was talking about, I became even more interested in the article. I’ve always been very interested in this mystery. I really enjoyed reading about all of the speculation and history of why and how the Easter Island heads got there. Unfortunately this article tended to lose my interest a little when diving into such details as the ideas of earth conservation. I do think this is an extremely important topic to keep in mind, however, it was not what I was originally interested in reading about in this article. I did like the following of the single archaeologist to give the essay structure. Overall I thought this was a well written science feature.