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PUBLICATIONS

Hunt, T. and C. Lipo
2009 Ecological catastrophe, collapse, and the myth of 'ecocide' on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). In P.A. McAnany and N. Yoffee, Editors, Questioning Collapse: Human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire, Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-44.

Hunt, T. and C. Lipo
2008 Evidence for a Shorter Chronology on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(1): 140-148.

Hunt, T. and C. Lipo
2007 Chronology, deforestation, and “collapse:” Evidence vs. faith in Rapa Nui prehistory. Rapa Nui Journal 21(2): 85-97.

A. Storey, J. Ramirez, D. Quiroz, D. Burley, D. Addison, R. Walter, A. Anderson, T. Hunt, J. Athens, L. Huynen, and E. Matisoo-Smith.
2007 Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(25): 10335-10339.

Hunt, T.
2007 Rethinking Easter Island's Ecological Disaster. Journal of Archaeological Science 34: 485-502.

Hunt, T.
2006 Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island. American Scientist 94: 412-419.

Barnes, S., E. Matisoo-Smith, T. Hunt
2006 Ancient DNA of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 1536-1540.

Hunt, T. and C. Lipo
2006 Late colonization of Easter Island. Science 311: 1603-1606.

Gibbons, Anne (ed.)
2006 Dates revise Easter Island history. News of the week: Science 311: 1360.

Lipo, C. and T. Hunt
2005 Mapping prehistoric statue roads on Easter Island. Antiquity 79: 158-168.

Hunt, T. and C. Lipo
2000 Cultural elaboration and environmental uncertainty in Polynesia. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific.

MEDIA

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