Keywords:
Paleoecology.
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Archaeology.
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Anthropology.
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Ethnology.
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Paleontology .
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Biodiversity.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. Transpacific voyaging and settlement -- Chapter 1. Ex oriente lux? Amerindian seafaring and Easter Island contact revisited -- Chapter 2. Commensals/domesticates on Rapa Nui: what can their phlogeographic patterns tell us about the discovery and settlement of the island -- Chapter 3. Sweet potato on Easter Island: insights from a monographic study of the genus Ipomoea -- Chapter 4. Pre-European contact sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) at Rapa Nui: macrobotanical evidence from recent excavations in Rano Raraku quarry, Rapa Nui -- Chapter 5. Anakena Re-visited: new perspectives on old problems at Anakena, RapaNui -- Part II. The ancient Rapanui culture -- Chapter 6. A behavioralassessment of refuge caves (ana kionga) on Rapa Nui -- Chapter 7. Vinapu area revisited -- Chapter 8. Undelivered moai or unidentified monument? -- Chapter 9. Platforms in motion: a genealogical architecture -- Part III. Climatic and environmental change -- Chapter 10. Climatology of Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island) -- Chapter 11. Prehistoric paleoecology of Easter Island -- Chapter 12. Geological and climatic features, processes and interplay determining the human occupation and habitation of Easter Island -- Part IV. Deforestation and extinctions -- Chapter 13. The flora and vegetation of Easter Island – past and present -- Chapter 14. Palms for the archaeologist -- Chapter 15. Spatio-temporal patterns of deforestation, settlement and land use on Easter Island prior to European arrivals -- Chapter 16. Economic causes and consequences of deforestation on Easter Island -- Chapter 17. Palm forests to gardens and grassland: a study of environmental and geomorphological changes of the Te Niu, Rapa Nui landscape -- Part V. Collapse or resilience? -- Chapter 18. Environmental change and cultural continuity – extraordinary achievements of the Rapa Nui society after deforestation -- Chapter 19. Ecology limits population, but culture determines it: carrying capacity on Rapa Nui -- Chapter 20. Population principles, climate change and the “collapse” of the Rapa Nui society -- Chapter 21. Claims and evidence in the population history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) -- Part VI. European contact -- Chapter 22. The Human Giants of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Eighteenth century fake news and its significance for understanding the persistence of present-day myths.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XII, 628 p. 197 illus., 163 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030911270
Series Statement:
Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research 22
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91127-0
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-91127-0
Language:
English
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