Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around AD 400, and most agree that they came from East Polynesia. The archaeological record suggests a somewhat later date of ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous ... But that theory remains contentious, and other ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... civilization collapsed when the palm forest did; based on their own archaeological survey of the island, they think its population grew rapidly ...

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The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their ... The team's findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, argue that similar notches, grooves and ...

The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo announced on Wednesday that it is returning archaeological pieces and human remains taken by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 to Easter Island, also known as ...

The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions ... "They are not just archaeological remains, they are sacred elements of a living culture and fundamental to our Rapa Nui world ...