On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped…
A new study proposes links between the locations of Easter Island’s famous ahu and moai and freshwater sources. Robert J DiNapoli discusses…
Cutting-edge computer technology has shed new light on one of the enigmatic Easter Island statues, revealing new details of the cult images…
Polynesia was among the last places to be settled by humans, with the Lapita people arriving around 3,000 years ago (CWA 53).…
Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or…
Half of Australia’s rock art could disappear in the next 50 years, according to the country’s archaeologists. They have mounted a campaign…
I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had…
Australian academics and members of the Aboriginal community working together to record and protect rock art in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land,…
Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester has shown that stone figures lying on their…
What is being claimed as ‘the world’s southernmost site of early human life’, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, has been found as…
Though huge distances separate the islands of Fiji from the nearest continents, the Lapita people made the 3,000km journey around 1100BC…
Scott M Fitzpatrick takes us to one of the oldest-known cemeteries from the Pacific, at Palau, Micronesia…