He uses this to support that a pre-existing population arrived 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... Carbon dating will be used to determine its age. Salvador Atan Hito, vice president of the Ma'u Henua indigenous organization that manages ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... Yet when Dutch explorers landed on Easter Sunday in 1722, they met a Stone Age culture. The moai were carved with stone tools, mostly in a single ...