In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.
At Jamestown, Virginia, ancient DNA revealed the complex dog lineages between Indigenous dogs and the dogs brought by ...
The possibility of interchange between Polynesia and the Americas via Rapa Nui has been very controversial, but the presence ...
Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...
Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...
A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...