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A New Study Hints at the Origins of an Ancient Easter Island Script
A new study on Rongorongo, an indecipherable script found on artifacts on Easter Island, finds it could have been ...
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Easter Island Rapa Niu peoples’ land claims’ turns international
The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a body within the Organization of American States, has issued Precautionary Measures to protect the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.
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How Did Easter Island Get Its Statues? The Fascinating Story of the Moai
In the next parts, we’ll explore the Rapa Nui people’s origins, their society, and how they created these incredible statues. The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of the island’s ...
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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 ... likely never held many more than the 3,000 or so people European explorers encountered in 1722.
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First Inhabitants
As early as BC 5500 people in Melanesia were voyaging ... is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished.
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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...
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Episode 70 - Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island statue
It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
when more than 100,000 visitors were making the trek to Rapa Nui National Park and officials scrambled to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water ...
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Chile promotes tourism marriage ceremonies in Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter Island. Chilean tour companies offer a range of ceremonies on beautiful island locales that include ...
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Episode Transcript – Episode 70 - Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island Statue
It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...
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Easter Island
Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...