# Sherwood 2019: 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. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the quarry excavations and…

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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.

**Easter Island moai** Articledoi: **[10.1016/j.jas.2019.104994](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104994)** Checked against the original0

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Cited for the quarry excavations and the statues' setting.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[The moai standing on the outer slope of Rano Raraku](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai/artifacts/ART0CTG3AKC5YX9/the-moai-standing-on-the-outer-slope-of-rano-raraku)

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[Jo Anne Van Tilburg](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai/people/FIG0CTG2XNA441R/jo-anne-van-tilburg)

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[The Easter Island moai](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai)

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## Cite it

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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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