A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter ...

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 ...

This discovery happened at the archaeological site Anakena, the earliest known settlement on Easter Island, inhabited from around A.D 1000 to 1300. Understanding the food culture on the island ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places in the world, located around 3,600 miles off the coast of Chile, which annexed the territory in 1888. The eponymous island is named ...

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 ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... the Ma'u Henua indigenous organization that manages the site and its archaeological findings, called it a "very, very important discovery ...

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 ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...