No one knows for sure, but it is believed that around 300 A.D. a tribe of Polynesian explorers headed by a king named Hotu Matu’a, who had seen the island in a dream, arrived to inhabit the island.
Humans have traversed the surface of earth on horseback since prehistoric times, and Chile's Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) offers 164 square kilometers of open moorland to fathom this ancient partnership between species.