Rano Raraku
Why are roughly half of all the moai ever carved still standing in the quarry that made them — abandoned partway to somewhere else, or deliberately raised on the spot they were born?
c. 1250-1500 CE for the main period of carving, with quarrying continuing into roughly the early 1700s · Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Valparaíso Region, ChileAdded August 2026