The discovery came during a spring survey of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq village sites on Shuyak Island, about 54 miles north of Kodiak ...

Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women ...

Learn how a rescue excavation revealed the definitive date of the Carnac megaliths and gave new clues to their function.

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were carved ...

How humans moved large rocks to construct monuments has fueled many theories, even though it is a matter of physics and coordinated efforts by a large workforce. A more interesting concept to explore ...

A new theory about who built the iconic human-like figures on Easter Island has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community. Most historians agree that the stone structures were ...

Easter Island is 2,500 miles from mainland Chile, 7,000 miles from New Zealand; ... where the breakfasts are generous and they take the archaeology seriously.

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, 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, 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.