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How Did Easter Island Get Its Statues? The Fascinating Story of the Moai

Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...
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Rocks on Rapa Nui tell the story of a small, resilient population − countering the notion of a doomed overpopulated island

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new ...
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Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) Rapa ...

A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...
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DRESSING IN OTHER PEOPLE’S CLOTHES. CHANGES IN CLOTHING DURING EVANGELIZATION OF RAPA NUI - VESTIR CON ROPAS AJENAS. LOS CAMBIOS EN LA VESTIMENTA ...

In all human societies, textiles play important roles in social, economic, and religious life. As in other Polynesian societies, on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the second half of the 19th century, ...
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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

(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 ...
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Revisiting a Medical Marvel

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famous for its stone statues (moai) shown above. It is one of the most remote landmasses ever colonized by humans during pre-industrial times, sitting 1,290 miles from the ...