Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.
For years, the story of Easter Island has been told as a grim fable: a small, isolated community cut down its last tree, ...
Learn how several working groups with their own carving techniques built the iconic moai of Easter Island.
The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...
Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of ...
Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families carved their own.
(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 ...
(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 ...
"You can see things that you couldn't actually see on the ground," said archaeologist Professor Carl Lipo.