Other researchers suggest the exact opposite — that Easter Island is a tale of ... remote-sensing data and machine learning ...

View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- on Easter Island ... the June study used satellite images to map out rock gardens on the island. Rock gardening is an agricultural ...

They had no maps, no sextants, no compasses ... and now several teams are attempting to be the first to reach Easter Island, using ancient navigational techniques. No one has navigated a raft ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...