Terry Hunt

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989
M.A., University of Auckland (New Zealand), 1980
thunt@hawaii.edu
Anthropology web site

Research Interests

  • Prehistory of Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia)
  • Evolutionary theaory (including ecology and biogeography)
  • Ethnogenesis, Language, and prehistory, Social interaction/diversification
  • Ceramics (style, function, technology, and compositional analyses)
  • Geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Selected Publications

In press, "On the location of the Proto-Oceanic homeland" (J.E. Terrel, T.L. Hunt, and J. Bradshaw). Pacific Studies
1999, "A preliminary report on archaeological research in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. Domodomo: Fiji Museum Quarterly 12:5-43.
1998, "Comment on 'The Goals of Evolutionary Archaeology: History and Explanation' by R.L. Lyman and M.J. O'Brien" Current Anthropology 39.
1998, "Comment on 'Is it Evolution Yet? A Critique of evolutionary archaeology' by J. Boone and E.A. Smith" (T.L. Hunt, M.E. Madsen, and C.P. Lipo). Current Anthropology 39:158-159.
1997 "Reply to Hudson" (T.L. Hunt and J.E. Terrell). Current Anthropology. 38: 848-850.
1997, "Islands as Laboratories: Archaeological research in comparative perpective" (B. Fitzhugh and T.L. Hunt), Human Ecology 25:379-383 (special issue: "Islands as Laboratories: Archaeological research in comparative perpective") B. Fitzhugh and T.L. Hunt, Guest Editors.
1997, "A new Lapita-Associated Skeleton Fiji" (M. Pietrusewsky, T. L. Hunt, and R. M. Ikehara-Quebral). Journal of the Polynesian Society 106:284-295.
1997, "A Lapita-Associated Skeleton Fiji" (M. Pietrusewsky, T. L. Hunt, and R. M. Ikehara-Quebral). Micronesia 30:355-388..
1997, "The Dimensions of Social Life in the Pacific: Human diversity and the myth of the primitive isolate" (J.E. Terrell, T.L. Hunt and C.Gosden). Current Anthropology 38:155-195.
1996, "A New Lapita-Associated Skeleton (Burial Y2-25-1) from the Fiji Islands" (M. Pietrusewsky, T.L. Hunt, and R.M. Ikehara-Quebral). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 22:186 (abstract)
1993, "A reappraisal of evidence for subsistence change at the Hane Dune Site, Marquesas, French Polynesia" (M. Sweeney, M.W. Graves, and T.L. Hunt). Asian Perspectives 32(2):225-238.
1993, "Ceramic provenance studies in Oceania: Methodological issues." In B. Fankhauser and J. Bird, Editors, Archaeometry: Current Australasian Research. Occasional Papers in Prehistory, No. 22. Australian National University, Canberra.