Faunal collapse, landscape change and settlement history in remote Oceania

World Archaeology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-390

  Anderson, Atholl ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aridity; Ecological complexity; Faunal collapse; Isolation; Landscape transformation; Remote Oceania; Settlement history; Subsistence choices

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS;

EID: 0036190381     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240120107431     Document Type: Article

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