Robert Langdon - Obituary

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Robert Langdon, author of The Lost Caravel (1975), The Lost Caravel Re-explored (1988), and (with Darrel Tryon) The Language of Easter Island: Its Development and Eastern Polynesian Relationships (1983), has died in Australia. Langdon, a promoter of diffusionism, participated in some vigorous exchanges in Rapa Nui Journal with scholars Paul Bahn and John Flenley (Vol. 8(1):11-12, 1994; Vol. 9(1):19-20 1995), and Erika Hagelberg (Vol. 9(1):16-19, 1995). He also contributed papers to RNJ: Vol. 9(1):81-82 (1995); Vol. 9 (4):109-117 (1995); and Vol. 11(1):21-23 (1997).