While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

A first-ever 3D model of the Rano Raraku quarry lets anyone examine Easter Island’s iconic statue workshop in vivid detail.

A new 3D model shows Rapa Nui’s moai were carved by many small teams, overturning the myth of a single centralized system.

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from ...

Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of ...

For years, the story of Easter Island has been told as a grim fable: a small, isolated community cut down its last tree, ...

Binghamton University archaeologists have released a new interactive, 3D model of the Moai statue quarry on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

This story was written by Niki Kelly. It was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle here: https://indianacapitalchronicl.... Indiana University has completed its first international ...

We’re documenting something that really has needed to be documented, but in a way that’s really comprehensive and shareable.” ...

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, ...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen has an exquisite track record, having “discovered” both the Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Maupiti. However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...