A new study led by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory offers the clearest evidence yet that a centuries-long drought transformed life on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) beginning around the ...
Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...
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Underwater Ruins of Lake Titicaca: Bolivia’s Ancient Mystery
Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago, but ...
Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...
A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...
The new research “challenges commonly accepted ideas about the development” of ancient cultures. Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via ...
Introduction: Research overview / George W. Gill -- Review of Polynesian and Pacific skeletal biology / Michael Pietrusewsky and Michele Toomay Douglas -- Chronology and Easter Island prehistory / ...
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