A new study using radiocarbon dating suggests one Rapa Nui Rongorongo tablet may date to between 1493 and 1509, before Europeans arrived in the 1720s. The finding raises the possibility that the ...

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Few stories in our human past spark as much imagination as the discovery of the most remote islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. Rapa Nui, sometimes known by its colonial name of Easter Island, is ...

Picture Petaluma pre-European contact, with valley vistas, native grasses swaying, woodlands chock-full of wildlife, replete with waterfowl generously teeming throughout wetlands and waterways. Tall ...