Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg suggests that the moai production in Rano Raraku quarry probably started and stopped often over the years, possibly due to periodic resource shortages or to ...

The most important archaeological site on Rapa Nui is Rano Raraku, a volcano on the island's eastern side that the Indigenous people used as a quarry. The volcanic crater is made of tuff ...