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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few places on Earth are as well known for their so-called mysteries as Easter Island ... it wasn’t clear whether the island’s native population originated in Polynesia or South America.

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 ...

Source: SBS The question of what happened to the Rapanui, Easter Island’s native population ... 1862 in a raid by slave traders from Peru to work there, predominately in agriculture.