Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project Digital Archive

The archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is dominated by the large stone statues (moai) that date to c. 1000-1600AD. The majority of moai are sculpted from volcanic tuff quarried from the inner and outer crater of Rano Raraku, an extinct volcano situated in the south-east of the island. This archive contains data collated by the Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project between 2008 and 2015. The research was primarily funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was aimed at developing new interpretations of the organisation and meaning of the monumental construction activities on Rapa Nui. The Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project (LOC) archive comprises of inter-related documents, drawings, photographs and survey data generated between 2008 and 2015. The digital archive contains digitised versions of paper records as well as electronic files generated during the course of the project.