A frigid wind gusted in from Antarctica, making Tuki shiver. He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

"I have this sense that Rapanui children learn to walk just so that they can dance and to speak so they can sing," says Teave, 37. In 2016, she was one of 11 Rapanui who set up the Toki Foundation ...

"The fact that they successfully assembled these monuments is a clear signal of the engineering prowess of the prehistoric Rapanui people," said Sean Hixon, lead author and graduate student in ...

Gaymer, C.F. Wagner, D. Álvarez-Varas, R. Boteler, B. Bravo, L. Brooks, C.M. Chavez-Molina, V. Currie, D. Delgado, J. Dewitte, B. Easton, E.E. Friedlander, A.M ...