The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Unfinished moai attached to bedrock by “keels” along their backs demonstrate how carvers worked underneath from both sides until figures were separated from the source material. This production stage, ...

"Archaeologists have long been interested in understanding the antiquity and evolution of human occupation of the world's islands, but relatively limited attention has been given to small islands.

Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu -- Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can ...

In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo studies a photograph of pottery made in her country around 7,000 B.C. She ...

Just in time for Easter, a family of rabbits—you heard that right—has assisted in a major archaeological discovery on Skokholm Island in Wales. The Welsh bunnies served as unlikely excavators, ...

A forgotten sliver of land in the far north of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait’s Failaka Island is home now mostly to camels. Its only town is a sprawling ruin pockmarked with bullet holes and debris from ...

In 1772, merchant John Brown recruited men from a Providence tavern to silently row south on part of Narragansett Bay, board the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee and set the custom's patrol boat on ...