Jo Anne Van Tilburg is an American archaeologist best known for her research on the statues of Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
[1] Van Tilburg directs "Captured Visions", an award-winning rock art recording project in the Great Basin.
Other projets in which Van Tilburg is involved include the administration of a small grants program, training in field methods, and the creation of prototype digital storage projects for special collections.
She has conducted extensive archival and museum studies throughout the world and, since 1995, has researched the life of Edwardian archaeologist Katherine Routledge, the first woman (in company with her husband and fellow anthropologist William Scoresby Routledge), to conduct field work on Easter Island and in the Pacific.
[4] In 1998 she completed an experimental archaeology project to make and move a replica statue on Easter Island.