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Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe
Terry L. Hunt, 2007. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3), 485–502.
Argues from the late settlement date and from rat-gnawed palm nuts that introduced rats did much of the forest's damage, and that the island's demographic catastrophe followed European contact.
What it's used for here
The first full challenge to the ecocide account.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Hunt, T. L. (2007). Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3), 485–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.003
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Hunt, Terry L.. “Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe.” Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3), 485–502 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.003.