or Easter Island. Since the 1700s, when European explorers first reached its shores, Western anthropologists developed a ...

Researchers have long thought that hundreds of years ago, the population of the Pacific island Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... are often portrayed as a collapsed culture bounded by socio-political ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... Jared Diamond drew heavily on Flenley’s work for his assertion in Collapse, his influential 2005 book, that ancient Easter Islanders committed ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island ... overexploitation of the island’s natural resources led to population collapse. But now, new evidence ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...