New Statue Has Surfaced on Easter Island. The Problem? Nobody Can Explain Why It’s There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waves driven by rising seas could reach Ahu Tongariki -- the largest restored group of moai statues on Easter Island -- in less ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using 3D modeling and field experiments, researchers led by Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo have verified that the ...

New archaeological research has disproved one of the world’s most famous historical narratives - the environmental cautionary tale that claimed that the ancient civilisation of Easter Island in the ...

Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...

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 ...

Carl Lipo receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society’s enduring impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability Program. Conventional wisdom holds that the island ...

Answer: Archaeology is the scientific study of human history and prehistory through the excavation and analysis of artifacts, structures and other remains. It encompasses a wide range of periods and ...