When British explorer James Cook arrived at Rapa Nui — known to him as Easter Island — in 1774 ... Researchers say that a survey of ancient rock gardens using satellite imagery indicates ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui ... Archaeologists have identified the remains of rock gardens on which islanders would have grown ...

When Europeans discovered Easter Island in 1722, the island's population ... construction and overexploitation of once extensive rock gardens," the article's abstract section explains.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it ... imagery and machine learning to find archaeological rock gardens on the island, as these gardens were used by Indigenous people ...

The volcanic soil on Easter Island is highly weathered and ... There had been only one 2013 study aimed at determining the island's rock-garden capacity, which relied on near-infrared bands ...

Robert DiNapoli, co-author of a new study about population dynamics on Rapa Nui, stands in front of a rock garden on the ... of the Pacific island Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, experienced a steep ...

Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean 3,700 ... The team behind the June study used satellite images to map out rock gardens on the island. Rock gardening is an agricultural method that ...