Megalithic statue (moai) production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile)

• Carl Philipp Lipo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carl Philipp Lipo, Terry L. Hunt

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * clipo@binghamton.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4391-3590

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• Terry L. Hunt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carl Philipp Lipo, Terry L. Hunt

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Gina Pakarati ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, Chile

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• Thomas Pingel ,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

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• Noah Simmons ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Kevin Heard ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

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• Laryssa Shipley ,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Caroline Keller ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Colin Omilanowski

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  ¶‡ GP, TP, NS, KH, LS, CK and CO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8632-4590

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