Outer slopes of Rano Raraku with many moai, some half-buried, some left still "under construction" near the mountain.
Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island in Chile. It was a quarry for about 500 years until the early eighteenth century, and supplied the stone from which about 95% of the island's known monolithic sculptures (moai) were carved. Rano Raraku is a visual record of moai design vocabulary and technological innovation, where 887 moai remain. Rano Raraku is in the World Heritage Site of Rapa Nui National Park and gives its name to one of the seven sections of the park.
RanoRaraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park...
Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at RanoRaraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set...
663 ft) above mean sea level. There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at Rano Kau, RanoRaraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but no...
heaviest ever erected on the island. Ahu Tongariki is one kilometer from RanoRaraku and Poike in the Hotu-iti area of Rapa Nui National Park. All the moai...
into the 1830s. By 1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of RanoRaraku and Hoa Hakananai'a at Orongo. In about 60 years, islanders had damaged...
663 ft) above mean sea level. There are three Rano (freshwater crater lakes), at Rano Kau, RanoRaraku and Rano Aroi, near the summit of Terevaka, but no...
Tukuturi, a moai at RanoRaraku Outer slope of the RanoRaraku volcano, the quarry of the moai with many uncompleted statues. RanoRaraku volcano from the...
tuff are routinely excavated for storage of wine barrels. Tuff from RanoRaraku was used by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island to make the vast majority...
Roa. Marama: received the lands between Anakena and RanoRaraku. Having access to the RanoRaraku quarry proved extremely useful for those living in Marama's...
and lead a procession down the slope of Rano Kau to Anakena (if he was from the western clans) or RanoRaraku (if he was from the eastern clans). The...
It was not used to fashion the crouching moai Tukuturi at RanoRaraku, which is of RanoRaraku tuff. Archaeological excavations were carried out at Puna...
Pyramid. The Moai statues of Easter Island were moved miles from the RanoRaraku quarry to their current locations, and archaeologists have wondered how...
west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of Terevaka and Rano Kau. Hanga Roa in the native Rapa Nui language means "wide bay" or "long...
is currently mostly covered in grassland with nga'atu or bulrush (Schoenoplectus californicus tatora) in the crater lakes of RanoRaraku and Rano Kau....
Old Testament, Book of Exodus, 24:4 (400 BC) Easter Island's Moai at RanoRaraku Inside the burial chamber at Mane Braz, Brittany, France Menhirs at the...
Anthropological Museum, the ceremonial center Tahai, the quarries of Puna Pau and RanoRaraku, visiting the different ahus on the beaches of Anakena and Ovahe, seeing...
2016. Skjølsvold, Arne "Report 14: The Stone Statues and Quarries of RanoRaraku in Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin N. Ferdon Jr. (eds.) 'Reports of the Norwegian...
except for a pond in a golf course), Honolulu, Oahu USA, Hawaii Rano Kau, RanoRaraku and Rano Aroi (Ma′unga Terevaka) Chile, Easter Island Anatahan (intermittent...
shows a group of Moai buried to their shoulders on the outer slopes of RanoRaraku. 7 Cuiabá, Brazil Umahara Headdress of the Rikbaktsa people Very colorful...
camps, one in the area of Mataveri and the other at the statue quarry, RanoRaraku and also explored Orongo and Anakena. With the help of an islander named...
city of Easter Island, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to its north. The RanoRaraku quarry from where the statues were made is at least 15 kilometres (9...
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