Were the Moai Along Rapa Nui’s Ara Moai (Moai roads) Standing? The LOC “Moai Roads” Survey, 2010–2017
Series: UCL Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Interim Reports, 17
Publisher: (Artefact Services for) UCL Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Lewes
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 78
First sentence: Rapa Nui’s Ara Moai (statue roads) consist of a number of bifurcating alignments of recumbent moai, in places associated with discontinuous linear hollows and lynchet-like features, leading to (or away from) the Rano Raraku moai quarry, to which almost all—if standing—would have had their backs.