Pakarati is dwarfed by a stone head as he stops ... claimed possession of Easter Island in 1888 and, in 1935, designated it a national park, to preserve thousands of archaeological sites.

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building ...