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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 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…

Issue 27/Polynesia

Earliest Remote Pacific Colonists Identified

Will isotope analysis reveal the origins of skeletons found in the earliest known cemetery in the Pacific…

Issue 20/Features/Polynesia

Polynesia: Art and Divinity

What is taboo? The current exhibition at the British Museum reveals all by looking at Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860…

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