The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies : : Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives / / ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch, Jean-Louis Rallu.
Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai'i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations?...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 71 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1. Long-Term Demographic Evolution in the Pacific Islands
- 2. Pre- and Post-Contact Population in Island Polynesia
- 3. Demography and Food in Early Polynesia
- 4. "Like Shoals of Fish"
- 5. Modeling Agricultural Development and Demography in Kohala, Hawai'i
- 6. Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui
- 7. Reconstructing Hawaiian Population at European Contact
- 8. Pre-Contact Population in the 'Opunohu Valley, Mo'orea
- 9. Estimating the Population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas, French Polynesia) According to the Archaeological Remains
- 10. Archaeological Demography and Population Growth in the Kingdom of Tonga
- 11. Protohistoric Samoan Population
- 12. An Accent on Atolls in Approaches to Population Histories of Remote Oceania
- 13. Prehistoric Population Growth on Kosrae, Eastern Caroline Islands
- 14. Population in a Vegetable Kingdom
- 15. What were the Real Numbers?
- 16. Concluding Remarks
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index