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 ...

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.

These characteristics help rock gardens stand out more distinctly ... Ecologists often use Easter Island as an example of how population pressures can lead to environmental disaster.

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 ...

Using that data, the team trained three machine-learning models to use that ground survey data to identify rock gardens across the island in a newly available set of satellite images detailed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...