Late Holocene landscape evolution and land-use expansion in Tutuila, American Samoa

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-68

  Pearl, Frederic B ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

American Samoa; Geochronology; Landscape evolution; Polynesia; Prehistoric human impacts

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PREHISTORIC;

AMERICAN SAMOA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TUTUILA;

EID: 33645322929     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2006.0013     Document Type: Article

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