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 ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Located in the Pacific, it lies over 1,900 km east ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated researchers for centuries. A new genetic study disproves the popular theory that the Rapanui population ...

Ancient DNA analysis has further demonstrated that the people of Rapa Nui did not cause their own ... maybe sometimes we have to– to check, especially when there's so much evidence speaking ...

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A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the inhabitants commingled with Native Americans. When you purchase through ...

Deforestation theory for wipeout of Rapa Nui people of Easter Island is thrown into doubt by new study Sacrificed ‘frozen’ Inca child in Chile did not die peacefully as previously thought ...

Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide — an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong.There are hundreds of huge stone statues ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Pacific islanders who carved the haunting stone statues of Rapa Nui appear to have avoided ...

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 ...

Both the island and its people are also known as Rapa Nui. Located in the Pacific Ocean 3500 kilometres from South America, Rapa Nui is one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth.