Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a "huge burden" on the land, CNN said in 2019. To prevent a covid catastrophe, officials ...

or Easter Island. Since the 1700s, when European explorers first reached its shores, Western anthropologists developed a theory about ‘ecological collapse,’ claiming the Rapanui people had ...

Hancock's theory follows a 2008 study that found evidence of shrubs and herbs on Easter Island between 14,000 and 10,000 ...

Van Tilburg concludes, "The moai thus mediates between sky and earth, people and chiefs, and chiefs and gods." The word "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...