Recent genetic research has challenged long-standing theories about the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization on Easter ...

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 Rapa Nui genomes overturn ideas about pre-colonial collapse. ... theory about Rapa Nui’s history 5. According to this narrative, when Europeans arrived on the island, ...

Ancient DNA analysis has further demonstrated that the people of Rapa Nui did not cause their own population collapse, further refuting a controversial but popular claim. Rapa Nui, also known as ...

The latest findings, published in the journal Nature, provides further evidence against the popular and controversial "ecological suicide" or "ecocide" theory. Rapa Nui—a special territory of ...

There are multiple theories about what happened to the people of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - and the famous Moai statues. Some say the civilization fell into collapse and ruin.

According to this theory, a population of over 15,000 Rapa Nui individuals triggered widespread changes across the island, including deforestation to build the statues, ...

Rapa Nui is 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles) from the nearest inhabited island and almost 3,800 kilometers from the Chilean mainland. Early theories assumed that the population grew rapidly.

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 ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

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, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.