# Hunt 2007: Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe

> Terry L. Hunt, 2007. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The first full challenge to the ecocide account.

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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.

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The first full challenge to the ecocide account.

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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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