Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

Diamond called this self-destructive behavior "ecocide" and warned that Easter Island's fate could one day be our own. When Captain James Cook visited there in 1774, his crew counted roughly 700 ...

"Easter Island Origins." Right now ... To Western explorers like Captain James Cook, who visited the island in 1774, this looked like a wilderness. JAMES COOK (re-enactment): "The ground had ...

When British explorer James Cook arrived at Rapa Nui — known to him as Easter Island — in 1774, he described small bands of malnourished people barely sustained by a barren, treeless strip of ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed ... with Captain James Cook writing in 1774 that he “could hardly conceive how these islanders ...