Citing a rare eyewitness account, an archaeologist suggests that the Britons and Indigenous Eastern Islanders excavated Hoa Hakananai'a together.

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For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures missing their bodies. But this ...

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

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people call it—is arguably the world’s most remote inhabited place. To the mystique of its isolation amid ...