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Easter Island/Features/Issue 104/Rapanui

Ruins on Rapa Nui

On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…

Tanya Brosnnan studies a coastal freshwater seep behind moai
Easter Island/Features/Issue 94/Rapanui

Easter Island: where to build a monument

A new study proposes links between the locations of Easter Island’s famous ahu and moai and freshwater sources. Robert J DiNapoli discusses…

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Easter Island/Issue 59

Easter Island imaging

Cutting-edge computer technology has shed new light on one of the enigmatic Easter Island statues, revealing new details of the cult images…

Issue 57/Tonga

Filing down dates

Polynesia was among the last places to be settled by humans, with the Lapita people arriving around 3,000 years ago (CWA 53).…

Issue 56/Features/Vanuatu

SW Pacific: Erromango

Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or…

Issue 49/Australia

Australia’s rock art threatened

Half of Australia’s rock art could disappear in the next 50 years, according to the country’s archaeologists. They have mounted 
a campaign…

Issue 45/Australia/Travel

Govett’s Leap

I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had…

Issue 43/Australia

Australian rock art

Australian academics and members of the Aboriginal community working together to record and protect rock art in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land,…

Issue 42/Celebrating World Heritage/Rapanui

The secrets of Easter Island’s fallen idols

Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester has shown that stone figures lying on their…

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Issue 41/Tasmania

Tasmanian Prehistory

What is being claimed as ‘the world’s southernmost site of early human life’, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, has been found as…

Issue 30/Fiji

Migration period Lapita settlement found in Fiji

Though huge distances separate the islands of Fiji from the nearest continents, the Lapita people made the 3,000km journey around 1100BC…

Issue 29/Features/Micronesia

Palau, Micronesia

Scott M Fitzpatrick takes us to one of the oldest-known cemeteries from the Pacific, at Palau, Micronesia…

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