The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island ... populations met before Europeans arrived on the island, and in the Americas.

The island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never had a catastrophic ... caused a supposed rapid rise and catastrophic fall before any Europeans arrived. The research, which used a ...

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues did not result in the population’s catastrophic collapse as held by a ...

IN ONE of the most isolated places on Earth, a mysterious people flourished for hundreds of years before their penchant ... So runs the conventional story of Easter Island – which now looks ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been ... the rats inadvertently brought to the island that ate palm nuts before they could sprout into new trees.

Although it has been well established that the environment in Rapa Nui was affected by human activity—for example, via deforestation—after the initial peopling of the island and prior to ...

The Rapa Nui people of Easter Island are ... between 800 and 1200 AD, the island landscape was lush with palm forests. The prevailing theory holds that settlers’ slash-and-burn farming practices led ...

Few places on Earth are as well known for their so-called mysteries as Easter Island, also known as Rapa ... But despite this deforestation, my own research on the diet of the prehistoric Rapanui ...

There are good reasons the story of Easter Island is often held up as a parable for planet Earth and humanity’s future. The tiny island was, for centuries, as isolated in the vast Pacific Ocean ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population ... caused a supposed rapid rise and catastrophic fall before any Europeans arrived. The research, which used a type of artificial intelligence ...