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

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand ... Though similar monoliths have been found throughout Polynesia, Rapa Nui’s statues are unique ...

Did they sail from the east, from South American soil, or from Central Polynesia to the north and west? It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui ... agreed that people arrived in Eastern Polynesia and on Rapa Nui sometime in the ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population ... Rapa Nui was first settled around 1000 A.D., likely by people from Polynesia, who regularly traded with people living on the South American ...