Evidence for a shorter chronology on rapa nui (Easter Island)

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-148

  Hunt, Terry L ^a   Lipo, Carl P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronometric hygiene; Colonization; Environmental change; Polynesia; Rapa Nui

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COLONIZATION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; HYDRATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL EROSION; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EASTER ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 49549112487     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564890801990797     Document Type: Article

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