Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... Archaeologists and historians have debated the island's history, but it is believed that Polynesians landed on the island ...

Dive into the astonishing revelations from Easter Island that challenge our understanding of history! Discover the mysteries ...

Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe—be connected by more than coincidence? This video explores striking symbolic parallels between the Moai statues and Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, including shared carvings, ...

there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the story of this remote land, its people, and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's ...

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

Paul Trachtman Local artists are reviving the island's traditions. Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai he's just ... an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent ... The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so.

Easter Island’s 19th Century history is a sad one: slave raids in 1862 reduced the ... “Explorer Thor Heyerdahl famously asserted that it was South Americans who built the moai. “However, rather than ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...

He has continued to carry out numerous studies in anthropology, ethnology, and ethno history on Easter ... of Ahu Akivi, one of Easter Island's most visited moai sites. In 1977 he was a founder ...