It allows us to reconstruct population size from the structure of inherited genomic segments. Rapa Nui society developed advanced agricultural techniques to offset limited natural fertility. These ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments.

The Rapa Nui people, he says, used ropes and momentum to move the moai. He scrunches his shoulders toward his ears, makes like he’s a stone statue and stiffly rocks his upper body left to right.

Though small, the Rapa Nui Museum—the only one on the island—boasts an impressive collection, including ancient fishing hooks, a white coral moai eye, and mata (obsidian stone tools).

It looked at the “ecocide” of the people of Rapa Nui, the Pacific island known in Europe and North America as Easter Island. A scientific study, published this month, has debunked Diamond’s ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a place of mystery ... Make your way to Ahu Tongariki, where fifteen Moai stand sentinel on a volcanic stone platform. As the sun rises over the Pacific, ...

Rapa Nui is famous for its large statues called moai. They are shaped like large human heads and erected on stone pedestals. Some moaistand 40 ft tall and weigh 75 tonnes. They were carved in ...

Protze/picture alliance/blickwinkel/McPHOTO There are hundreds of huge stone statues on Rapa Nui — the so-called Moai. No one has ever conclusively found out why they exist. But researchers have ...

Ancient DNA analysis has further demonstrated that the people of Rapa Nui did not cause their own ... They have these huge stone statues called Moai that they put on also these stone platforms ...

Rapa Nui, sometimes known by its colonial name of Easter Island, is perhaps an extreme example, being one of the most isolated places on Earth. It was peopled more than 800 years ago by Polynesian ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island ... wisdom grew out of speculation about another set of stone structures on the island: the iconic massive ...