Explore the intriguing history of Easter Island and uncover who might have inhabited the island before the Polynesians. Delve into the legends, archaeological evidence, and DNA studies that shed ...

The Chilean government claimed possession of Easter Island in 1888 and, in 1935, designated it a national park, to preserve thousands of archaeological sites. (Archaeologist Van Tilburg estimates ...

Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around AD 400, and most agree that they came from East Polynesia. The archaeological record suggests a somewhat later date of ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... civilization collapsed when the palm forest did; based on their own archaeological survey of the island, they think its population grew rapidly ...

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.

“There is little archaeological evidence to support the history of internal warfare and collapse before contact with the outside world.” Easter Island’s 19th Century history is a sad one: slave raids ...

He has continued to carry out numerous studies in anthropology, ethnology, and ethno history on Easter Island, in addition to directing the Rapa Nui Archaeological survey, a gigantic task still in ...

The island’s Chamber of Tourism ... tourists travelling to Rapa Nui for its archaeology. “This will create a ‘travel triangle’ of Lima – Easter Island – Santiago, which will allow ...

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...