Road my body goes: Re-creating ancestors from stone at the great moai quarry of Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

World Archaeology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-210

  Richards, Colin ^a   Croucher, Karina ^a   Paoa, Tiki ^b   Parish, Tamsin ^a   Enrique Tucki, M ^b   Welham, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Rapa Nui ^*  (United States)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmogony; Easter Island; Moai roads; Mythopraxis; Rano Raraku; Rapa Nui

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; LABOR RELATIONS; QUARRY;

EASTER ISLAND; POLYNESIA;

EID: 79960705393     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2011.579483     Document Type: Article

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