# Lipo 2025: Megalithic Statue (Moai) Production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): 3D model and feature data

> Carl Lipo, Terry Hunt, Thomas Pingel, 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The 3D record of the quarry behind the 2025 production paper.

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# Megalithic Statue (Moai) Production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): 3D model and feature data

Carl Lipo, Terry Hunt, Thomas Pingel, 2025. _Zenodo_.

The structure-from-motion mesh of the Rano Raraku quarry (a 12 GB scene layer package) made from 11,686 drone photographs taken between June 2023 and January 2024, with the mapped production features.

**Easter Island moai** **Primary source** DatasetCopy of **[The Rano Raraku quarry faces with unfinished moai](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai/artifacts/ART0CTG3B3009FQ/the-rano-raraku-quarry-faces-with-unfinished-moai)** doi: **[10.5281/zenodo.17095895](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17095895)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The 3D record of the quarry behind the 2025 production paper.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[The Rano Raraku quarry faces with unfinished moai](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai/artifacts/ART0CTG3B3009FQ/the-rano-raraku-quarry-faces-with-unfinished-moai)

ART

[The Rano Raraku quarry faces with unfinished moai: model](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/easter-island-moai/copies/CPY0CTG3BAT220E/the-rano-raraku-quarry-faces-with-unfinished-moai-model)

CPY

[Rano Raraku quarry 3D model](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CTG3ABJ08TF/rano-raraku-quarry-3d-model)

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DAT

## Cite it

```
Lipo, C., Hunt, T., & Pingel, T. (2025). Megalithic Statue (Moai) Production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): 3D model and feature data. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17095895
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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17095895)

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**SRC** 0CTG2VPT5PQZ

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CC-BY-NC-4.0

Kept

27 Oct 2026, for editors

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Against the published original

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[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

The record

Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS.

[CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CTG2VPT5PQZ/megalithic-statue-moai-production-on-rapa-nui-easter-island/csl.json)