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New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry: Soil fertility, site formation and chronology
Sarah C. Sherwood, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Casey R. Barrier et al., 2019. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Excavation around two standing moai in the Rano Raraku quarry: the statues were set upright in pits, the soils were fertile and cultivated, and the quarry was a productive garden as well as a workshop.
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Sherwood, S. C., Van Tilburg, J. A., Barrier, C. R., Horrocks, M., Dunn, R. K., & Ramírez-Aliaga, J. M. (2019). New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry: Soil fertility, site formation and chronology. Journal of Archaeological Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104994
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Sherwood, Sarah C. et al.. “New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry: Soil fertility, site formation and chronology.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104994.