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.

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. ... The Indigenous people of Rapa Nui, ...

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki near the Rano Raraku volcano, top, on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Nov. 27, 2022. According to Salvador Atan Hito, vice president of the Ma'u Henua ...

The question of what happened to the Rapanui, Easter Island’s native population, is one of the world's most intriguing mysteries, while the myths surrounding the famous moai statues they created ...

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was no population crash before the arrival of Europeans ...

Ma'u Henua is the Indigenous organization which oversees the national park on the island, which the Indigenous people of Rapa Nui ... There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) as a case study in the devastating cost of environmentally unsustainable living.

By 1877, the island’s population dwindled to as little as 111.The population has rebounded, with an estimated 2,000 native people living there today in a population of about 7,000. But threats ...

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.

Ma'u Henua is the Indigenous organization which oversees the national park on the island, which the Indigenous people of Rapa Nui ... There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from ...