Few places in the world have been as influenced by archaeology as Rapa Nui (Easter Island). So much so that just as the tree does not allow us to see the forest, the moai does not allow us to see the ...

For decades, the story of Rapa Nui —also known as Easter Island —has been presented as a stark warning about the consequences of environmental mismanagement. Popular accounts have long claimed that ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui people that reduced time spent building statues, but not all archaeologists ...

Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

You can see the limits of your world, your solid world.” Rapa Nui's first inhabitants are thought to have arrived around 400 C.E., or, as more recent studies suggest, between 700 and 800 C.E.

A commonly held belief is that the Rapanui committed ecocide by decimating the environment of Easter Island (traditionally known as Rapa Nui), which is located 3,700 kilometres from Chile’s west ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a small island located in the southeast Pacific Ocean. It is most famous for nearly 1,000 large statues called moai, which have human faces. The island ...

Turning the gaze within Rapa Nui is famous for its large statues called moai. They are shaped like large human heads and erected on stone pedestals. Some moai stand 40 ft tall and weigh 75 tonnes.

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.

It suggests that between the 12th to 13th centuries AD, the Rapa Nui people cut down a large number of the island’s native palm trees to either make fields for agriculture or to erect giant ...