A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the inhabitants commingled with Native ... whose work has been featured ...

Rapa Nui, often referred to as Easter Island ... that the island's indigenous people had traveled there from South America, have since been put to rest. Genomes from people native to the island ...

“To know that I played a small part in returning these Rapa Nui ancestors to Easter Island is overwhelming and so personally rewarding,” said Thomas, executive director of IU’s Office of the Native ...

Natalia Solar CC license 4.0. The second is the possibility that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui reached the Americas—after crossing the Pacific—and had contact with Native Americans before ...

Shortly after Europeans first came to the remote Pacific territory they called Easter ... babies with Native Americans some time between 1336 and 1402—after their arrival on the island, and ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui ... at 11 different sites with ahu. That work met with some mixed opinions from Lipo's ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island ... figures and tools used by the native Rapa Nui people are buried ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As a native Staten Islander with a great interest ... I love to learn and experience how other people live, work, and play. I have had wonderful opportunities to meet ...

The remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island ... past inhabitants had Native American DNA. Researchers think this "mixing" would have taken place sometime between ...

working with individuals and institutions in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Canada, the United States and Chile to locate their ancestors’ remains and bring them home to Easter Island.