Easter Island Moai Quarry

We then moved on to one of the most fascinating sites. It is the quarry where the Moai were cut from the stone. Everywhere you look there are Moai littered about. Many of these were the ones in progress, being carved when the carving stopped and that the dirt built up around them as time went on and they became partially buried. In addition the remains of broken Moai litter the ground everywhere. It is thought that sometimes in transit they broke and were left where they fell. If you look at the center of the first picture with this post and then just to the right, you can see a very large Moai that was being carved and is still part of the hillside. In the next picture this is a closer view of the same Moai. On the left side of this picture you can see where a Moai had already been cut from the mountain and it was likely a similar size. There were many places where you could see Moai being carved, with one above being carved, one on the side, one in
front etc. They did not waste material.