Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

Jan 2005 Malamalama: Magazine of the University of Hawaii System

Rethinking Rapa Nui http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2005/01/f4_rapanui.html

Cover story

Jan 2005 Long Beach Press Telegram

CSULB Prof Tackles the Mystery of Easter Island

http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo/media/CSULBProf-05.pdf

Article

7 Feb 2005 Druid’s Foot (online)

Easter Island Mystery Could be Solved.

http://www.druidsfoot.com/showthread.php?t=156

Blog

27 Mar 2005 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Straßen des Größenwahns

http://www.faz.net/s/RubC5406E1142284FB6BB79CE581A20766E/Doc~EA1B974D12AA9456A85EF6726027C0717~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Article

1 Sep 2005 Worldtalk: National Geographic Radio Interview for NPR, XM Satellite Radio, and Sirius Satellite Radio

From the field on Easter Island

Radio interview

5 Dec 2005 USA Today “Did Easter Island get ‘ratted’ out?”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-05-easter-island_x.htm

Article

6 Dec 2005 Physorg.com New Easter Island Theory Presented

www.physorg.com/news8793.html

Article

7 Dec 2005 Radio New Zealand International

“Easter Island’s demise promoted by rats eating palm seeds”

Radio

7 Dec 2005 United Press International (UPI)

“New Easter Island theory presented”

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2005/600/

Article

7 Dec 2005 Archeoblog Easter Island update http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/easter-island-update-terry-hunt-sends.html

Blog

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

13 Feb 2006 Anthropology News

Easter Island Tops Stories Emerging from Meeting

http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2006.47.2.22

Article

13 Feb 2006 Anthropology News

Opening Up a Dialogue Between Anthropologists and Journalists

www.anthrosource.net/doi/pdf/10.1525/an.2006.47.2.23.2

Article

24 Feb 2006 Weekly Reader Rats! Scientists say ravenous rodents ruined Easter Island

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-13840799_ITM

Cover story

Mar 2006 Long Beach Press Telegram

Study doubts Easter Island ‘collapse’

http://www.presstelegram.com

Front page story

9 Mar 2006 New Scientist Did humans devastate Easter Island on arrival?

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8825

Cover story

9 Mar 2006 Live Science View of Easter Disaster All Wrong, Researchers Say

http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_easter_island.html

Article

9 Mar 2006 Peak Oil Debunked

More evidence debunking the eco-collapse of Easter Island

http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/03/260-more-evidence-debunking-eco.html

Blog

9 Mar 2006 National Geographic News (Online)

Easter Island Settled Later, Depleted Quicker Than Thought?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_060309_easter.html

Article

9 Mar 2006 MSNBC.com Tragic Tale of Easter Island Gets New Twist

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11747815/

Article

9 Mar 2006 Washington Post.com - Achenblog

Bulletin from Easter Island

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2006/03/bulletin_from_easter_island.html

Blog

10 Mar 2006 Science Dates Revise Easter Island History

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5766/1360

Article

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Date Publication Title Location Type

10 Mar 2006 Science (Podcast)

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/misc/podcast/SciencePodcast_060310.mp3

Podcast

10 Mar 2006 Fox News Radiocarbon Revision Leads to New Easter Island Theory

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187370,00.html

Article

10 Mar 2006 Süddeutsche Zeitung

Junge Hochkultur; Osterinsel erst spät besiedelt

Article

10 Mar 2006 Clayton Cramor’s Blog

Easter Island, Land of Many Myths?

http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_03_05_archive.html

Blog

10 Mar 2006 Honolulu Advertiser

Researchers: East Polynesia Settled Later

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/10/ln/FP603100356.html

Front page story

10 Mar 2006 El Pais La caida de la isla de Pascua

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/ultima/caida/isla/Pascua/elpepiult/20060310elpepiult_1/Tes

Article

10 Mar 2006 Softpedia News (Online)

Rats and Europeans: The Destruction of Easter Island

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rats-and-Europeans-are-to-Blame-for-the-Destruction-of-the-Easter-Island-19503.shtml

Article

10 Mar 2006 Reason Magazine (Online)

Rapa Nui Hooey? http://www.reason.com/blog/show/112906.html

Blog

11 Mar 2006 Associated Press

Research shows east Polynesian islands settled later than thought

Article

11 Mar 2006 Science News Polynesian Latecomers: Easter Islanders Took Fast Track to Culture

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060311/fob3ref.asp

Article

11 Mar 2006 Look Smart Science News (Online)

400 AD http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_10_169/ai_n16119028

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

12 Mar 2006 Far Outliers (Online)

Rapa Nui Settled Later than Thought?

http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/rapa-nui-settled-later-than-thought/

Blog

13 Mar 2006 Boston Globe Easter Island’s population may be younger than thought

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/03/13/researchers_say_tv_is_not_to_blame_for_adhd/

Article

13 Mar 2006 New Zealand Press Assoc

Easter Island inhabited 800 years later than previously thought

Article

13 Mar 2006 Monga Bay.com Easter Island Settled Around 1200, Later Than Originally Believed

http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0313-easter.html

Blog

13 Mar 2006 The Australian News

Easter Island ‘settled later’

Article

13 Mar 2006 Le Figaro L'île de Pâques colonisée tardivement

http://fr.newspeg.com/actualite/Sciences/L'%EEle%20de%20P%E2ques%20colonis%E9e%20tardivement-21879.news

Article

13 Mar 2006 OC Register Easter Island Reconsidered

http://blogs.ocregister.com/sciencedude/archives/2006/03/easter_island_r.html

Blog

13 Mar 2006 Shenanigans and Sku’lduggery

New Easter Island Theory

http://cruelkev3.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-easter-island-theory.html

Blog

14 Mar 2006 New York Times

Easter Island Update http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/science/14obox.html?ex=1187409600&en=53c02a4978cf5e72&ei=5070

Article

14 Mar 2006 Heise Zeitschriften Verlag

Spat Besiedelt, Schnell Zerstort

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22229/1.html

Article

15 Mar 2006 Ka Leo O Hawai`i

Archaeology Suggests Rapa Nui Colonized Later Than Thought

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

16 Mar 2006 Christian Science Monitor

News from the Frontiers of Science

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-143310325.html

Article

17 Mar 2006 Science (This Week in Science)

Starting Statues Sooner http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5767/1517a?ck=nck

Article

18 Mar 2006 New Scientist Easter Island mystery deepens

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925434.300.html

Article

Mar 2006 Discovery Channel Canada: Daily Planet (Video)

http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=3/14/2006

TV interview

25 Mar 2006 Der Kleine Bund

Das Mahnmal ist Gefallen

Article

27 Mar 2006 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Straßen des Größenwahns

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub80665A3C1FA14FB9967DBF46652868E9/Doc~EA1B974D12AA9456A85EF6726027C0717~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Article

13 Apr 2006 USA Today Easter Island Statue Heads Home

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-13-statue_x.htm

Article

14 Apr 2006 Futureamblog Easter Island history revised?

http://www.futuramb.se/blog/2006-04/easter-island-history-revisioned/

Blog

18 Apr 2006 The Age (Australia)

Easter Island Statue Heads Home

Easter Island Statue Heads Home

Article

19 Apr 2006 Noticias 21 Arqueologia: La isla dePascua es possible que se colonizara mas tarde de lo que se

pensaba

Article

20 Apr 2006 Cambridge Network News: The Scientific Alliance

Ecocide or Rats? http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=34322

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

24 Apr 2006 Honolulu Advertiser

Rat Tracks Tell Story of the Pacific

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Apr/24/ln/FP604240337.html

Article

May 2006 Malamalama: Magazine of the Univesity of Hawaii System

Rapa Nui Settlement Estimates Revised to Later Period

http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/archive/downloads/0605_feat.pdf

Article

6 May 2006 ABC Radio National: The Science Show (Australia)

Rewriting the Easter Island Story

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1628502.htm

Radio

30 May 2006 Maggio (Italy) E Questo E’Quello Che Pensa

Article

Jun-Jul 2006 Hana Hou: The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines

Deepening the Mystery http://www.hanahou.com/pages/Magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=472&MagazineID=28

Article

Jul 2006 Worldtalk: National Geographic Radio Interview for NPR, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio

Interview from field work on Easter Island

Radio interview

29 Jul 2006 New Scientist Easter Island: A Monumental Collapse (cover story)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125621.100.html

Article

31 Jul 2006 New Scientist Podcast

Easter Island: A monumental collapse

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/mg191256211A1.mp3

Podcast

1 Aug 2006 Not PC (Online) Russell Norman, Jared Diamond & Easter Island: “Bunk”

http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/08/russel-norman-jared-diamond-easter.html

Blog

11 Aug 2006 Conservation Finance

The Fall of Easter Island

http://conservationfinance.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/the-fall-of-easter-island/

Blog

15 Aug 2006 Ben Muse (Online)

What Did Happen on Easter Island?

http://benmuse.typepad.com/ben_muse/2006/08/was_jared_diamo.html

Blog

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

22 Aug 2006 Chicago Reader: Daily Harold

Easter Island: Did Rats Destroy It?

http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/daily-harold/2006/08/22/easter-island-did-rats-destroy-it/

Blog

24 Aug 2006 Historical Implications (Online)

Articles Worth Reading– Easter Island and New Orleans

http://historicalimplications.blogspot.com/2006/08/articles-worth-reading-easter-island.html

Blog

25 Aug 2006 Science Daily (Online)

Remote Island Provides Clues on Population Growth, Environmental Degradation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060825201027.htm

Article

28 Aug 2006 Jennifer Marohasy.com

Rats Destroyed the Forests on Easter Island: Terry Hunt

http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/001583.html

Blog

Sep-Oct 2006 American Scientist

Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/53200?fulltext=true&print=yes

Invited contribution

3 Sep 2006 Alpha Psy (Online)

Is Diamond’s Worldview Sustainable?

http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~alphapsy/blog/?2006/09/03/13-diamond

Blog

17 Sep 2006 La Presse Montreal

Controverse sur l’île de Pâques

http://www.an1000.org/actualite-258.html

Article

23 Sep 2006 New Zealand Herald

Potatoes, Bush, and Key to Survival

Article

29 Sep 2006 Tages-Anzeiger Entwaldung fuhrte nicht in die Katastrophe

http://twerner.blogspot.com/2006/12/entwaldung-fhrte-nicht-in-die.html

Article

3 Oct 2006 Sciencetiker. Info

Osterinsel Spat Besiedelt, Schnell Verwustet

http://www.scienceticker.info/news/EEuEAuZupFFrljMzc.shtml

Article

3 Oct 2006 El Periodico de Aragon

El Colapso de Rapa Nui

http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=236574

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

10 Oct 2006 an1000.org Controverse sur l’Ile de Pâques

http://www.an1000.org/actualite-258.html

Article

22 Oct 2006 Energy Bulletin Catastrophe? http://www.energybulletin.net/21576.html

Article

23 Oct 2006 Salon.com Are We Not Rats? http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/10/23/easter_island/index.html

Article

Dec 2006 Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Kein Kollaps auf der Osterinsel?

http://www.spektrum.de/artikel/856010

Cover story, invited contribution, translated

17 Dec 2006 Pittsburgh Post Gazette

“Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, yields more questions than answers”

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06351/746188-37.stm

Article

7 Jan 2007 The Independent (UK)

Rats, Not Men, to Blame for Death of Easter Island

http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2132559.ece

Article

9 Jan 2007 Unexplained Mysteries.com

Did Rats Cause Death of Easter Island?

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/search.php?cat=3&p=8

Blog

9 Jan 2007 About.com: Archaeology (NY Times Co.)

Terry Hunt on the Genocide on Easter Island

http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/257838.htm

Article

Winter 2007 Kaunana: The Research Publication of the University of Hawaii

Of Rats, Rapa Nui and Men

http://www.kaunana.com/Default.aspx?tabid=90

Cover story

18 Jan 2007 L'Express Indiscrets - Époque Article

21 Jan 2007 Honolulu Star Bulletin

Rats Latest Culprit in Rapa Nui’s Demise

http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/21/news/story02.html

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

31 Jan 2007 Discovery Channel Canada: Daily Planet (Video)

Mystery Island http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=3/14/2006 or mms://media.exn.ca/exnmedia/exn20060314-island.wmv

TV interview

20 Feb 2007 Science Friday (Online)

Run Al, Run? http://www.sciencefriday.com/blog/index.php?/archives/196-Run-Al,-run.html

Blog

Feb 2007 Scientific American (Brasil)

O Colapso dos Rapanuihttp://www2.uol.com.br/sciam/reportagens/o_colapso_dos_rapanui.html

Invited contribution, translated

28 Mar 2007 Hawaii Public Radio: Think Tech Hawaii

Rats and their impacts on islands

http://www.thinktechhawaii.com/reports.aspx

Radio interview

Mar 2007 Smithsonian Magazine

The Mystery of Easter Island

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/april/easter.htm

Article

16 Apr 2007 The Times (London)

Inconveniently, Rapa Nui did not commit ecocide

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article1657974.ece

Article

18 Apr 2007 Miami Herald Massive statues on the world's most remote island are clues

http://www.miamiherald.com/981/story/63351.html

Article

4 Jun 2007 Live Science Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Colombus

http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html

Article

4 Jun 2007 National Geographic News

Polynesians—And Their Chickens—Arrived in Americas Before Columbus

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070604-chickens.html

Article

5 Jun 2007 Honolulu Advertiser

Chicken-bone points to early voyages to Chile

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070605/NEWS01/706050348/1001

Article

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Terry L. Hunt, Media List, 2005-2008

Date Publication Title Location Type

5 Jun 2007 University of Auckland News

Groundbreaking Research on Prehistoric Polynesian Voyaging

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/about/news/articles/2007/06/chickens.cfm

Article

7 Jun 2007 Nature DNA Reveals How Chicken Crossed the Sea

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070604/full/447620b.html

Article

Jul 2007 BBC Focus Magazine

The Death of a Civilisation: What fate befell the people of Easter Island?

http://info.bbcfocusmagazine.com/pdf_supplement.php?jchk=1&nolog=1&s_id=1&ss_id=4

Article

4 Jul 2007 The Independent (London)

Riddle of the Stones http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070704/ai_n19340981

Article

4 Jul 2007 The Independent (London)

How Did Easter Island’s Ancient Statues Lead to the Destruction of an Entire Ecosystem?

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2734673.ece

Article

6 Jul 2007 Clioaudio.com Ecology and Easter Island

http://clioaudio.com/2007/07/06/ecology-and-easter-island/

Blog

7 Jul 2007 History News Network

Ecology and Easter Island

http://hnn.us/blogs/comments/40661.html

Blog

Aug 2007 The Scientist A Summer of Statues http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/53413/

Article

16 Aug 2007 First Science.com

A Fowl Surprise http://www.firstscience.com/home/blog/142.html

Blog

4 Sep 2007 Natural History Magazine

Chile Con Pollo http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/index_toc.html

Article

21 Sep 2007 Science Easter Island Revisited http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5845/1692

Article

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Date Publication Title Location Type

25 Sep 2007 La Press Montreal

Encore L’île de Pâques Article

25 Dec 2007 New York Times

A Question of Blame when Societies Fall

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25diam.html?scp=5&sq=jared+diamond&st=nyt

Article

26 Feb 2008 Norman Sustainability Network

The Fall of Easter Island: Eco-lesson or modern myth?

http://normansustainability.org/blog/?p=25

Blog

28 Feb 2008 New Statesman The Real Lesson of Easter Island

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2008/02/ancient-cultures-climate

Article

Mar/Apr 2008 Archaeology Magazine

Flawed Diamond http://www.archaeology.org/0803/

Article

Mar/Apr 2008 Archaeology Magazine

Insider: Do Civilizations Really Collapse?

http://www.archaeology.org/0803/abstracts/insider.html

Article

10 July 2008 Hawaii Public Radio

Dr. Terry Hunt Presents Rapa Nui Findings

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/podcast2/?p=2085

Radio interview