New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say
Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...
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Easter Island’s Ancient Population Never Faced Ecological Collapse, Suggests Another Study
New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources ...
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Easter Island DNA proves the population did not collapse
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...
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Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests
A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...
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Research Rejects Popular Idea About Easter Island
A new study puts what a researcher calls the "final nail in the coffin" regarding a longstanding narrative about Rapa Nui, ...
Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory
Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...
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Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...
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DNA suggests that the Rapa Nui arrived in the Americas two centuries before Columbus
DNA extracted from 15 corpses stored in a Paris museum has yielded a monumental surprise: the Rapa Nui, inhabitants of Easter ...
Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse
Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...
Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse
The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...
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New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.