These linguistic links point to a genealogical bond that ties the people of the Pacific to one another. Indeed, in 1994, DNA from 12 Easter Island skeletons was found to be Polynesian. According ...

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

Easter Island was discovered in 1722 by Dutch explorers, and its native population has lived on the island for hundreds of years. The oral history of the native Rapa Nui people claims that at ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a "huge burden" on the land, CNN said in 2019. To prevent a covid catastrophe, officials ...

Honey Hooper/Wikimedia Commons The team discovered that there is only a small amount of freshwater available on Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, so the people who lived there most likely ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world ...

In the quarry at Rano Raraku, ancient matamu'a carved the stone monuments known as moai, which represent ancestors who have passed away. The Rapa Nui ...