Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

or Easter Island. Since the 1700s, when European explorers first reached its shores, Western anthropologists developed a theory about ‘ecological collapse,’ claiming the Rapanui people had ...

Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a "huge burden" on the land, CNN said in 2019. To prevent a covid catastrophe, officials ...

His theory is based on a study suggesting banana plants were present on Easter Island at least 3,000 years ago. He uses this to argue that the plants—and a pre-existing population—arrived ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive? It is the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The coast of Chile lies 2,300 miles to the east, Tahiti 2,500 miles to the northwest ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...

Hancock's theory follows a 2008 study that found evidence of shrubs and herbs on Easter Island between 14,000 and 10,000 years ago. He uses this to support that a pre-existing population arrived ...

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.