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"Easter Island: The Dream at the End of the World" - New York Times (April 30, 2006)

"Rats Latest Culprit in Rapa Nui’s Demise" - Honolulu Star-Bulletin (January 21, 2007)

"Rats Likely Decimated Ewa Forest" - Honolulu Star-Bulletin (January 21, 2007)

"Faunal Collapse, Landscape Change and Settlement History in Remote Oceania" - World Archaeology 33(3):375-90 (2002)

"Hepatotoxicity Associated with Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid (Crotalaria spp) Ingestion in a Horse on Easter Island" - Veterinary and Human Toxicology 41(2):96-99 (1999)

"Sailing the Seven Seas in the Interest of Science" - National Geographic 42:631-690 (1922)

"Easter Island Subsistence" - Journal de la Société des Océanistes 80:103-124 (1986)

"Easter Island Fishing" - Asian Perspectives XXII(1):61-92 (1979)

"Easter Island Ahu Archaeology Twenty-Five Years After the Norwegian Expedition" - Asian Perspectives XXII(1):93-99 (1979)

"Radiocarbon Dates from Easter Island" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 80:497-504 (1971)

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"Easter Island’s Decaying Statues Await Facelift" - Yahoo! News (November 18, 2003)

"Easter Island Residents Down and Out in Paradise" - Yahoo! News (December 16, 2003)

"Remote Easter Island Seeks Autonomy from Chile" - Yahoo! News (November 20, 2003)

"Rapa Nui: El País de los Gigantes" - Patrimonio Mundial 18:38-49 (2000)

"Cracking the Easter Island Code" - New Scientist 150(2034):36-39 (June 15, 1996)

"Making Sense of Rongorongo" - Nature 379:204-205 (1996)

"Target Thor Heyerdahl" - The Explorers Journal 75(1):17-18 (1997)

"Archaeological Stone of Easter Island" - Geoarchaeology 8(2):127-139 (1993)

"Petrology and Geochemistry of Easter Island" - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 44:85-100 (1974)

"Preliminary Account of Recent Geological Investigations on Easter Island" - Geological Magazine 104(2):116-122 (1967)

"Some Ethnological Suggestions in Regard to Easter Island, or Rapanui" - Folk-Lore XXVIII:356-381 (1917)

"Geology and Petrology of Easter Island" - Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 48:1589-1610 (November 1, 1937)

"Ancient DNA of the Pacific Rat (Rattus exulans) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Journal of Archaeologicals Science 33:1536-1540 (2006)

"Pre-contact Writing in Oceania" in Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 8 (1971)

"Easter Island Place-Names" - Journal de la Société des Océanistes 18:100-7 (1962)

"Rezitationen von der Osterinsel" - Anthropos 55:841-859 (1960)

"The ‘Talking Boards’ of Easter Island" - Scientific American 198:61-68 (1958)

"Female Stone Figures on Easter Island" - Journal of the Polynesian Society - Vol. 67:252-255 (1958)

"Booming and Crashing Populations and Easter Island" - SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 65(2):684-701 (2004/05)

"Rapa Nui: A Stone Image" - Man 23:113-114 (1923)

"Sailing Characteristics of Oceanic Canoes" in Polynesian Navigation (Jack Golson, ed.) - A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1962

"Oceania: Colonizing the Limits" - The Review of Archaeology 15(1):16-23 (1994)

"The Peopling of the Pacific," - Scientific American 243:174-185 (Nov. 1980)

"The Prehistory of Oceania" - Current Anthropology 16(1):9-28 (1975)

"Lessons from the Past" - The Northwest Technocrat, 2nd quarter; No. 343 (1996)

"Tangata Manu and ´Ao, Secular Power on Rapa Nui" - Clava 4 (1988)

"The Languages of Polynesia" in Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 8 (1971)

"The Panis of the Rig Veda and Script of Mohenjo Daro and Easter Island" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 48:92-103 (1939)

"The Polynesian Connection" - Archaeology 58(2):42-45 (2005)

"Experiment in the Replication and Classification of Easter Island Mata´a" - Rapa Nui Journal 20(2):125-133 (2006)

"Drifters Could Explain Sweet Potato Travel: An Unsteered Ship May Have Delivered Crop to Polynesia" - Nature.com (May 18, 2007)

"Chicken of the Sea: Poultry May Have Reached Americas via Polynesia" - Science News 171:356 (2007)

"Polynesian Latecomers" - Science News 169:148 (2006)

"Rat DNA Points to Pacific Migration" - Science News 166:30 (2004)

"Easter Island Community Ready for Change" - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (April 16, 2005)

"The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use" - American Economic Review 88(I):119-38 (1998)

"Some Observations on the Early History of the Coconut in the New World" - Acta Americana 2:220-243 (1944)

"Polynesian Voyages" - Man Vol. 33, No. 136 (1933)

"Birds as Possible Agents in the Propagation of the Sweet Potato" - The Emu 65:165-182 (1966)

"Decipherment of the Easter Island Script" in Culture and History in the Pacific (Jukka Siikala, ed.) - Finnish Anthropological Society, 1990

"Preliminary Report on the Study of the Written Language of Easter Island" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 66(1):5-17 (1957)

"Sculpting Insular Lessons Across Curriculum: Students Create Models of Moai Sculptures of Easter Island" - New York Teacher; http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/2004-2005/041007easterisland.html (October 7, 2004)

"CSULB Prof Tackles Mystery of Easter Island" - Long Beach Press Telegram (January 30, 2005)

"Anomalous Radiocarbon Dates from Easter Island" - Radiocarbon 46(1):395-405 (2004)

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"The Elusive Island" - The Explorers Journal 75(1):19-21 (1997)

"The Biota of Long-Distance Dispersal. V. Plant Dispersal to Pacific Islands" - Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 94(3):129-162 (1967)

"The Easter Island Inscriptions, and the Translation and Interpretation of Them" - Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol.1, No.4, pp.103-6 (1892)

"The Easter Island Inscriptions, and the Way in Which They are Translated" - Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol.1, No.4, pp.233-53 (1892)

"Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture: A Tale of Two Autopsies" - Sociological Inquiry, No. 2; 63:202-223 (May 1993)

"Anomalous Westerly Winds During El Ni o Events: The Discovery and Colonisation of Easter Island" - Applied Geography 13:123-34 (1993)

"A Biological Review of the Prehistoric Rapanui - Journal of the Polynesian Society 106(2):161-174 (1997)

"Easter Islander Origins: Non-metric Cranial Trait Comparison Between Easter Island and Peru" - Rapa Nui Journal 11:2):58-63 (1997)

"A Vanishing People of the South Seas" - National Geographic XXXVI(4):275-306 (1919)

"Sleeping at the Feet of Stone Giants" - ContraCostaTimes.com (October 15, 2006)

"Easter Island Looks to the Future" - USA Today (January 4, 2007)

"Reconstructing the Origins and Dispersal of the Polynesian Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)" - Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(5)893-900 (2006)

"Welcome to Easter Island" - Risk Management Magazine (July 2005)

"Easter Island Boat Voyage Gives Weight to Theory" - Union-News, April 13, 2003

"Kon Artist? - Smithsonian (July 2002)

"Easter Island Unveiled" - National Geographic 183(3):54-79 (1993)

"Notes on Easter Island" - The Geographical Journal L(1):57-68 (1917)

"Polynesian Names of Sweet Potatoes" - Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 6(4):339-347 (1916)

"The Sweet Potato — Its Origin and Primitive Storage Practices" - Economic Botany 5:378-386 (1951)

"Easter Island: The Riddle of the Pacific" in Isles of Romance and Mystery - Lutterworth Press, 1949

"Easter Island Comes to Oahu" - Yahoo! News (July 10, 2005)

"Pollen and Phytolith Analysis of Pit Features, Easter Island" - Paleo Research Labs Technical Report 98-85 (August 1999)

"Exploratory Pollen and Phytolith Analysis on Easter Island" - Paleo Research Labs Technical Report 96-53 (September 1996)

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"Easter Island: Inscribed Tablet" - Man No. 1; 4:1-7 (1904)

"Easter Island Script" - Man No. 78; 4:115-116 (1904)

"Could Institutional Reform Have Saved Easter Island?" - Journal of Evolutionary Economics 10(5):489-505 (2000)

"A Layman’s Guide to Rongorongo: An Historical Approach" (Part 1 of 4) - Rapa Nui Journal 2(3):5-8 (1988)

"A Layman’s Guide to Rongorongo: The European and American Discoveries — the 20th Century" (Part 2 of 4) - Rapa Nui Journal 2(4):3-4 (1988/89)

"A Laypersons Guide to Rongorongo: What is Rongorongo?" (Part 3 of 4) - Rapa Nui Journal 3(4):1,4-13 (1989/90)

"A Layperson’s Guide to Rongorongo" (Part 4 of 4) - Rapa Nui Journal 4(1):7-15 (1990)

"The Easter Island and the Indus Valley Scripts" - Anthropos XXXIII:808-814 (1938)

"Endogenous Technological Progress and the Malthusian Trap: Could Simon and Boserup Have Saved Easter Island?" - Human Ecology (2005)33(1):119-141 (2005)

"Geographical Knowledge of the Polynesians and the Nature of Inter-Island Contact" in Polynesian Navigation (Jack Golson, ed.) - A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1962

"Express Train to Polynesia" - Nature 336:307-308 (1988)

"The Problem of the Sweet Potato in Polynesia" - American Anthropologist Vol. 34 (1932)

"Decipherments of Tomorrow" in Voices in Stone: The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts & Writings - Viking Press, 1961

"Rats, Not Men, to Blame for Death of Easter Island" - The Independent (January 7, 2007)

"A Recently Extinct Palm from Easter Island" - Nature 312:750-752 (1984)

"The End of Moai Quarrying and its Effect on Lake Rano Raraku, Easter Island" - Journal of Paleolimnology 20:409-422 (1998)

"Pig Study Forces Rethink of Pacific Colonisation" - Science Daily (March 13, 2007)

"Polynesian Ancestors and Their Animal World" - American Scientist (May-June 1990)

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"A ‘Domestic Idol’ from Easter Island (Rapa-nui)" - Man No. 46; 4:73-74 (1904)

"Viability of Coconut Seeds After Floating in the Sea" - Occasional Papers of Bishop Museum, Vol. XVI, No. 12 (December 3, 1941)

"Las ‘Tabletas Parlantes’ de Pascua" - Runa 4:89-177 (1951)

"Easter Island" - Washington Times (November 10, 2001)

"The Isles of the Pacific" - National Geographic 146(6):732-793 (1974)

"Easter Island’s Position in the Prehistory of Polynesia" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 81:57-69 (1972)

"Polynesian Stone Remains" in Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia (Carleton S. Coon, et al., eds.) - Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1948

"Resource Use, Institutions, and Sustainability: A Tale of Two Pacific Cultures" - Land Economics 76(3):345-354 (2000)

"The Mysteries of Easter Island" - South American Explorer 31:21-25 (1992)

"Blood Groups in Natives of Easter Island" - Nature 316:690-691 (1967)

"Sentinels of Rapa Nui: Easter Island" in Mysteries of the Ancient World - National Geographic Society, 1995

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"Rapanui Wicker Figures and Their Names" - Rapa Nui Journal 8(4):91-93 (1994)

"In Defence of the Orongo ‘Sun Stones’ - Journal of the Polynesian Society 97:73-7 (1988)

"A Possible Source of Origin of the Easter Island Boat-Shaped House" - Asian Perspectives XXII(I):1-8 (1981)

"Polynesian Origins" - Science 142:1255-1256 (1963)

"Easter Island Exchange Systems" - Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:136-151 (1958)

"Notes on the Present-Day Easter Islanders" - Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:223-238 (1957)

"Voyage to Polynesia’s Land’s End" - Antiquity 75:172-181 (2001)

"Colonizing an Island World: Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific" (Ward H. Goodenough, ed.) - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 86(5):71-116 (1996)

"Polynesian-South America Round Trip Canoe Voyages" - Rapa Nui Journal 8(2):33-35 (1994)

"Voyaging into Polynesia’s Past" in From Sea to Space - Massey University, 1992

"Myth, Experiment, and the Reinvention of Polynesian Voyaging" - American Anthropologist 93:383-404 (1991)

"Voyaging Against the Direction of the Trades: A Report of an Experimental Canoe Voyage from Samoa to Tahiti" - American Anthropologist 90:401-5 (1988)

"Anomalous Westerlies, El Ni o and the Colonization of Polynesia" - American Anthropologist 87:9-26 (1985)

"Voyaging Canoes and the Settlement of Polynesia" - Science 196(4296):1277-1285 (1977)

"Voyaging and Isolation in Rapa Nui Prehistory" - www.pvs.hawaii.org/rapanui/finney.html [no date]

"Reply to Jacques Guy" - Journal de la Société des Océanistes 107(2):233-234 (1998)

"Preliminary Evidence for Cosmogonic Texts in Rapanui’s Rongorongo Inscriptions" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 104:303-321 (1995)

"Homogeneity in Old Rapanui" - Oceanic Linguistics 31(2):181-90 (1992)

"Hugh Cuming’s Account of an Anchorage at Rapanui (Easter Island), November 27-8, 1827" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 100:303-315 (1991)

"Rapanui’s Tu´u ko Iho Versus Mangareva’s ´Atu Motua" - Journal of Pacific History 29(1):3-18 (1994)

"Rapanui’s ‘Great Old Words’: E Timo te Akoako" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 103(4):413-443 (1994)

"Ship’s Surgeon R. Guthrie’s Account of a Calling at Rapanui Aboard H.M.S. Seringapatam on 6 March 1830" - Rapa Nui Journal 8(3):63-66 (1994)

"Rapanui or Rapa Nui?" - Rapa Nui Journal 7(4):73-75 (1993)

"Easter Island: Brooding Sentinels of Stone" in Mysteries of the Ancient World - National Geographic Society, 1980

"Further Evidence of Vegetational Change on Easter Island" - South Pacific Study 2:135-141 (1996)

"Pollen in Polynesia: The Use of Palynology to Detect Human Activity in the Pacific Islands" in Tropical Archaeobotany: Applications and New Developments (Jon G. Hather, ed.) - Routledge, 1994

"Stratigraphic Evidence of Environmental Change on Easter Island" - Asian Perspectives XXII (1); 33-40 (1979)

"The Pollen Record and Easter Island Statues (Reply)" - Nature 312:289-290 (1984)

"Late Quaternary Pollen Records from Easter Island" - Nature 307:47-50 (1984)

"The Late Quaternary Vegetational and Climatic History of Easter Island" - Journal of Quaternary Science 6:85-115 (1991)

"Das Alter der Steinriesen auf der Osterinsel" - Umschau in Wissenschaft und Tehnik 12:374-377 (1965); translated as "The Age of the Stone Giants of Easter Island" by Judy Pyle, 1986.

"Lichenometrische Altersbestimmungen an verchristlichen Steinsetzungen der Polynesischen Osterinsel" - Naturwissenshcaften 48:627-628 (1961); translated as "Lichenometric Aging on Pre-Christian Stone Monuments on Easter Island in Polynesia" [trans. & year unknown]

"Easter Island: a Case Study in Non-Sustainability" - Greener Management International 48:11-20 (Winter 2004/05)

"AMS ¹⁴C Age Determinations of Rapanui (Easter Island) Wood Sculpture: Moai Kavakava ET 48.63 from Brussels" - Antiquity 75:529-532 (2001)

"Old Chicken Bones Show Polynesians Came to Chile" - Reuters (June 4, 2007)

"A Trip to Easter Island [A Speck on the Ocean]" - Journal Franklin Institute, pp.179-199 (September 1906)

"Catastrophe and Continuity in Social Evolution" in Theory and Explanation in Archaeology (C. Renfrew, et al., eds.) - Academic Press, 1982

"Easter Island: A Chilling Parable For Man’s Excess" - denverpost.com (January 31, 2007)

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"Dates Revise Easter Island History" - Science (March 10, 2006)

"The Peopling of the Pacific" - Science (March 2, 2001)

"Craniometric Evaluation of Prehistoric Easter Island Populations" (abstract) - paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists - Indianapolis (1983)

"Easter Island Rocker Jaws"- Rapa Nui Journal 4(2):21 (1990)

"Thor Heyerdahl and the Prehistory of Easter Island" - Oceania 36:38-83 (1965-66)

"Inbreeding and Surnames: A Projection Into Easter Island’s Past" - American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:435-445 (2006)

"Prehistoric Solar Innovation and Water Management on Rapa Nui" - paper presented at the ISES/ASES World Conference, Orlando, Florida (August 2005)

"Easter Island, the Land of the Statues" - Australian Geographer 12:3-13 (1939)

"Easter Island Maori Headdresses" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 32:47-50 (1923)

"Great Stone Faces of Easter Island" - National Geographic LXXXV No. 2:225-232 (February 1944)

"Ritual Behaviour and Ceremonial Structures in Eastern Polynesia: Changing Perspectives on Archaeological Variability" in The Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Society in Polynesia (M.W. Graves & R.C. Green, eds.) - New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 19 (1993)

"Remote Island’s Simple Lifestyle Good for Health" - New Zealand Herald (May 4, 2005)

"Community-Level Organization, Power and Elites in Polynesian Settlement Pattern Studies" in The Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Society in Polynesia (M.W. Graves & R.C. Green, eds.) - New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 19 (1993)

"When Things Fall Apart" - Time (February 14, 2005)

"The Arts of the South Pacific" in The Arts of Mankind - Golden Press, 1963

"The Phylogeny of the Cocoeae (Arecaceae) with Emphasis on Cocos nucifera" - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 91:505-522 (2004)

"Does the Santiago Staff Bear a Cosmogonic Text?" - Anthropos 93:552-555 (1998)

"On a Fragment of the ‘Tahua’ Tablet" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 94:367-388 (1985)

"Fused Glyphs in the Easter Island Script" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 91:445-447 (1982)

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"Melanesian Influences in Easter Island" - Folk-Lore XXIX:161-62 (1918)

"Genetics in the Study of Human History: Problems and Opportunities" - Kroon Lecture Monograph, Stichting Nederlands Museum, Amsterdam (2000)

"Ancient DNA Studies" - Evolutionary Anthropology Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.199-207 (1993/94)

"Genetic Affinities of the Principal Human Lineages in the Pacific" - Terra Australis 17:167-176 (1992)

"Ancient Bone DNA Amplified" - Nature 342:485 (1989)

"Molecular Genetic Evidence for the Human Settlement of the Pacific: Analysis of Mitocondrial DNA, Y Chromosome and HLA Markers" - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 354:141-152 (1999)

"DNA from Ancient Easter Islanders"- Nature 369:25-26 (May 1994)

"A Heady Experience" - Washington Post (April 24, 2005)

"Easter Island Parade" - Washington Post (September 18, 2005)

"Two Unique Petroglyphs in the Marquesas Which Point to Easter Island and Malaysia" in Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia (Carleton S. Coon, et al., eds.) - Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1948

"Female Pollution in Polynesia?" - Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol. 91:335-381 (1982) Harrison, J. Park

"Note on Five Hieroglyphic Tablets from Easter Island" - Journal of the Anthropological Institute Vol. V, p.248-250 (1876)

"Hieroglyphic Tablets and Sculpture in Easter Island" - Nature 10:399-400 (September 17, 1874)

"The Hieroglyphics of Easter Island" - Journal of the Anthropological Institute III:370-383 (1873)

"Prehistoric Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) from Mangaia Island, Central Polynesia" - Antiquity 65:887-893 (1991)

"Heyerdahl’s Hypothesis of Polynesian Origins: A Criticism" - Geographical Journal Vol. 116, Nos. 4-6 (1950)

"Ancient Heavy Transport, Methods and Achievements"- Science 153:821-830 (1966)

"Mysterious Easter Island Described by a Passenger on Once-a-Year Steamship" - New York Herald Tribune (1933)

"Three Polynesian Tales About the South Seas" - Journal of Austronesian Studies II(3):52-54 (1966)

"Easter Island: Enigma of the Stone Statues" - Geographical Review 76(3):42-45, 47, 49 (2004)

"Population Evolution in 20th-Century Easter Island: Endogamy and Admixture" - Human Biology 72(2):359-377 (2000)

"Primitive Navigation in the Pacific - I" in Polynesian Navigation (Jack Golson, ed.) - A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1962

"The Heterogeneity of Small Sculptures in Easter Island Before 1886" - Asian Perspectives 22:9-31 (1981)

"Discussions of Transoceanic Contacts: Isolationism, Diffusionism, or Middle Course?" - Anthropos 61:689-707 (1966)

"Prehistoric Voyages as Agencies for Melanesian and South American Plant and Animal Dispersal to Polynesia" in Plants and the Migrations of Pacific Peoples: A Symposium (Jacques Barrau, ed.) - Bishop Museum Press (1963)

"Plant Evidence for Contacts with America before Columbus" - Antiquity XXXVIII:120-133 (1964)

"The Voyage of the Raft Kon-Tiki" - Geographical Journal, Vol. 115 (1950)

"The Voyage of the Raft ‘Kon-Tiki’" - Natural History (June 1948)

"The ‘Walking’ Moai of Easter Island" - Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers [no date]

"Island Fungus May Provide Cure for Disabling Tumour" - news.telegraph (September 18, 2004)

"Primitive Navigation in the Pacific - II" in Polynesian Navigation (Jack Golson, ed.) - A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1962

"The Original Home and Mode of Dispersal of the Coconuts" - Nature 124(3127):507-508 (1929)

"Preliterate Societies" in Medical History of Contraception - Schocken Press, 1936

"Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki Theory and the Denial of the Indigenous Past" - Anthropological Forum 14(2):163-181 (2004)

"Plant Microfossil Analysis Reveals Disturbed Forest and a Mixed-Crop, Dryland Production System at Te Niu, Easter Island" - Journal of Archaeological Science 35(1):126-142 (2008)

"Easter Island to Gain Autonomy" - Ohmynews.com (May 5, 2006)

"An Easter Islander’s Peruvian Family" - Ohmynews.com (September 20, 2005)

"Rocker Jaws" - American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47:365-370 (1977)

"Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island" - American Scientist 94:412-419 (2006)

"Late Colonization of Easter Island" - Science 311:1603-1606 (2006)

"Rethinking Easter Island’s Ecological Catastrophe" - Journal of Archaeological Science 34: 485-502 (2007)

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"Polynesians — and Their Chickens — Arrived in Americas Before Columbus" - National Geographic News (June 4, 2007)

"Human Colonisation and Change in the Remote Pacific" - Current Anthropology 31:90-94 (1990)

"Voyaging by Canoe and Computer" - Antiquity 64:34-50 (1990)

"How Lapita Lost its Pots: The Question of Continuity in the Colonisation of Oceania" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 90:481-94 (1981)

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"Rapa Nui"; "Women to the Fore in Study of Statues"; "The Riddle of Rongorongo"; "Island Voices" - Japan Times (January 23, 2005)

"New Seven Wonders?" - Yahoo! News (February 19, 2006)

"Notes on the Birds of Easter Island" - Ibis 112:532-538 (1969)

"The Yankee’s Wander-World" - National Geographic XCV(1):1-50 (1949)

"Taiwan DNA Discovery Sinks Kon-Tiki Theory" - News.scotsman.com (July 5, 2005)

"Wooden Figurine from Easter Island" - British Museum Quarterly 8:114-115 (1934)

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"Sculptures of Barkcloth and Wood from Rapa Nui: Symbolic Continuities and Polynesian Affinities" - Res 44:10-69 (2003)

"Aspects of Polynesian Aesthetic Tradition" in The Art of the Pacific Islands (Peter Gathercole, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Douglas Newton, eds.) - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1979

"The Pollen Record and Easter Island Statues" - Nature 312:289 (1984)

"Fact Finding about Molds Made for the Easter Island Exhibition" - Pacific Arts (January/July):29-30 (1990)

"The Settlement of Polynesia" - Polynesian Voyaging Society (2004)

"Rethinking Mana" - Journal of Anthropological Research - Vol. 40:137-156 (1984)

"Diffusion: Evidence and Process" in Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts (Carroll L. Riley, ed.) - University of Texas Press, 1971

"Microcosmic Histories: Island Perspectives on "Global" Change" - American Anthropologist 99:30-42 (1997)

"The Marquesas Islands of Eastern Polynesia" in Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Idealogy - Cambridge University Press, 1991

"Polynesia’s Mystery Islands" - Archaeology 41:26-31 (1988)

"The Socio-political Structure of the Southern Coastal Area of Easter Island" in Island Societies - Cambridge University Press, 1986

"Moai Miro: Wood Sculpture of Rapa Nui" - World of Tribal Arts 7(2):62-73 (2002)

"Easter Island" - Geographical (March 1, 2004)

"The Symbol for Lizard in the Writing of the Easter Island" - Asian and African Studies X:61-67 (1974)

"Some Human Figures and Hand Forms in the Writing of Easter Island" - Asian and African Studies VIII:19-26 (1972)

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"Easter Island, Polynesia" - Antiquity 10:54-60 (1936)

"Easter Island and its Mysterious Monuments" - National Geographic 121(1):90-117 (1962)

"New Light on Easter Island Prehistory in a ‘Censored' Spanish Report of 1770" - Journal of Pacific History 30(1):112-120 (1995)

"Manioc, a Long Concealed Key to the Enigma of Easter Island" - Geographical Journal 154:324-366 (1988)

"A Catalogue of the Inscribed Tablets and Other Artifacts from Easter Island" - Journal of Austronesian Studies I(2):20-39 (1956)

"The Easter Island Inscriptions, with an Interpretation of the Tablet Known as ‘Atua-Mata-Riri’ - Journal of Austronesian Studies I(1):8-28 (1953)

"The Metoro-Jaussen List of Glyphs" - Journal of Austronesian Studies I(1):29-33 (1953)

"The Easter Island Tablet Known as ‘Mamari’" - Journal of Austronesian Studies I(1):52-82 (1953)

"Minor Inscribed Artifacts from Easter Island – I" - Journal of Austronesian Studies I(1):83-88 (1953)

"The Easter Island Script" - Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol. LI, pp.187-190 (1942)

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"Easter Island Remembered" - South American Explorer 81:12-17 (2006)

"The Nutcase Chronicles" Part III - South American Explorer 57:18-23 (1999)

"The Nutcase Chronicles" Part II - South American Explorer 56:22-29 (1999)

"The Nutcase Chronicles" Part I - South American Explorer 55:14-20 (1999)

"The Petroglyphs of Easter Island: Problems of Natural Erosion and Human Impact" in Lavas and Volcanic Tuffs - Proceedings of the International Meeting, ICCROM (1990)

"Easter Island: Mysterious Past, Uncertain Future" - South American Explorer 22:19-25 (1989)

"Fit for a King: The Petroglyphs of Anakena, Rapa Nui" - Clava No. 4, pp.49-62 (1988)

"The Birdman Motif of Easter Island" - Journal of New World Archaeology VII(1):39-49 (1986)

"Response to Ferdon" - Journal of the Polynesian Society 97:77 (1988)

"Easter Island’s ‘Sun Stones’: A Critique" - Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol. 96:81-83 (March 1987)

"Easter Island’s ‘Sun Stones’: A Re-Evaluation" - Archaeoastronomy 11 xviii:S1-S11 (1987)

"Rock Art on Easter Island" - Archaeology (November/December 1982)

"The Sisyphus Project" - South American Explorer 59:22-24 (2000)

"How Civilizations Fail" - Playboy (January 2006)

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