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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...