Today only 3,000 of the indigenous Rapa Nui people remain on the island - Alison Wright/Getty Images New studies have cast doubt on the widely held belief that Easter Island’s indigenous population ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) as a case study in the devastating cost of environmentally unsustainable living. The story ...

"In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism." So writes ...

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 ...

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal collapse because they overexploited their natural resources, an event often ...

A recently-published study challenges the popular myth that Easter Islanders' ancient rock gardening practices caused their own downfall. The journal article, which is titled "Island-wide ...

Easter Island has long been put forward as a prime example of humans undermining their own survival by destroying the environment they rely on. But now fresh data is turning the narrative on its head.

Some 1,000 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places -- a small, previously uninhabited island they named ...

A widespread theory that the people of Easter Island caused a societal collapse is not true, new research suggests - Copyright AFP/File PABLO COZZAGLIO A widespread ...

Whenever ancient non-white people build something big and impressive and historically significant the aliens theory is always more plausible for some reason. What could it be. Click to expand ...