The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter ... between them, ancient DNA suggests. The islanders, once the poster child ...

for the Rapanui people, "the underpinning of Rapanui culture. Literally, it was, according to Van Tilburg, "fuel for moai building." From at least AD 1000 to 1680, Rapa Nui's population increased ...

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the ... The researchers looked into the genomes of the Ancient Rapanui ...

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially settled by a wave of migration from Asia. It’s been less ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...

Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...

The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people there was a belief that ... a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from the wind.

People from Chile's Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ancestry, some from modern Chilean immigrants and some from the same ancient intermingling as the other islands. Rapa Nui ...