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Archaeologists Create First 3D Model of Easter Island’s Primary Moai Quarry


Ethnohistoric and recent archaeological evidence suggest that Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was a politically decentralized society organized into small, relatively autonomous kin-based communities across the island.

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