Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European contact

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1025-1030

  Stevenson, Christopher M ^a   Puleston, Cedric O ^b   Vitousek, Peter M ^c   Chadwick, Oliver A ^d   Haoa, Sonia ^e   Ladefoged, Thegn N ^f,g  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Fundación Mata Ki Te Rangi   (Chile)

^f Te Punaha Matatini University of Auckland ^*  (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Collapse; Dating; Obsidian; Population; Rapa Nui

Indexed keywords

RAIN; GLASS; OBSIDIAN;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COASTAL PLAIN; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; EUROPEAN; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; HYDRATION; LAND USE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT NUTRIENT; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SWEET POTATO; VOLCANO; YAM; AGRICULTURE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; MALE; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; GLASS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84921760428     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420712112     Document Type: Article

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