Stratigraphic and paleobotanical evidence for prehistoric human-induced environmental disturbance on Mo'orea, French Polynesia

Pacific Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 253-273

  Lepofsky, Dana ^a   Kirch, Patrick V ^b   Lertzman, Kenneth P ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HISTORICAL STUDY; HUMAN OCCUPATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; PREHISTORIC; VEGETATION CHANGE;

FRENCH POLYNESIA, SOCIETY ISLANDS, MO'OREA;

EID: 0030446180     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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