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The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of Easter Island’s Moai
Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...
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Exploring Easter Island: Top 5 Moai Statue Sites
From 1100 to 1500 AD, roughly one thousand moai statues were carved from the crater's eastern slope. The statues honor ancestors, chiefs, and important figures in Rapa Nui society. Rano Raraku ...
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Rano Raraku
The main quarry for Easter Island's statues, this volcanic crater ... Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg suggests that the moai production in Rano Raraku quarry probably started and stopped often ...
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Stone Giants
The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ... 397 are still in situ in quarries at the Rano Raraku central production center.....Fully 288 statues (32% of 887) were successfully ...
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Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board
The statues, say the Manchester and UCL team just back ... “They lead – from different parts of the island – to the Rano Raraku volcano where the Moai were quarried. “Volcano cones were considered as ...