The tiny island of Rapa Nui is literally in the middle of nowhere.
While the people are thought to have migrated on boats from Polynesia
there is stunning new evidence this culture branched off from the Inca or Maya
~ or more accurately, that they share the same parent culture: possibly even Atlantis.

Construction of the Moai may certainly have dominated the native culture of Easter Island
but overpopulation was the death of it, having outlasted their resources with no room to expand.
In the end, they thought they needed many more statues to stare out into the sea ~ and hold up the sky.