Paleoecological research on Easter Island : insights on settlement, climate changes, deforestation and cultural shifts / Valentí Rull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rull, Valentí.

Contributor:

ScienceDirect (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoecology--Easter Island.

Paleoecology.

Easter Island.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Elsevier, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Paleoecological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Rapanui glossary

Introduction

1. Aims and scope

2. Book organization

Appendix: Supplementary material

Chapter 1 The island at present

1.1 Geography and geology

1.2 Climate and hydrology

1.3 Soils and land use

1.4 Flora and vegetation

1.4.1 Lichens and bryophytes

1.4.2 Vascular flora

1.4.3 Vegetation

1.4.4 Paleoecological implications of landscape degradation

1.5 Archaeological heritage: An outdoor museum

1.6 Conservation: The Rapa Nui National Park

1.6.1 Conservation of archaeological heritage

1.6.2 Conservation of native and Polynesian-introduced flora

Chapter 2 The prehistory: From human settlement to European contact

2.1 From exploration to research

2.2 Prehistoric chronology

2.3 The first settlers

2.3.1 Some terminological considerations

2.3.2 When and from where?

2.3.3 From Polynesia to America and back

2.3.4 Summary

2.4 The ancient Rapanui society

2.4.1 Sociopolitical organization

2.4.2 The moai cult

2.4.3 The Birdman cult

2.4.4 Deforestation

2.4.5 Collapse or resilience?

2.4.6 Demography

2.4.7 The genocide

2.4.8 Summary

2.5 A narrative of human determinism

Chapter 3 Introduction to Easter Island's paleoecology: Why, where, and how?

3.1 Why study paleoecology?

3.1.1 General considerations

3.1.2 The case of Easter Island

3.2 Initial proposals of prehistoric climate change on Easter Island

3.3 Coring sites

3.3.1 Rano Aroi

3.3.2 Rano Kao

3.3.3 Rano Raraku

3.4 Cores retrieved and main proxies studied

3.5 Chronology and sedimentary patterns

3.6 Other paleoecological archives

Appendix 3.1

Rano Aroi

Rano Kao

Rano Raraku

Chapter 4 Paleoecological pioneers: The rising of the ecocidal paradigm

4.1 Before paleoecology

4.2 The first systematic pollen analyses

4.3 The first paleoecological synthesis

4.3.1 Vegetation dynamics

4.3.2 Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental inferences

4.3.3 Human impact

4.3.4 General conclusions

4.4 The first socioecological synthesis

4.5 Some insights on the pioneering works

4.5.1 Deforestation chronology

4.5.2 Paleoclimatic inference and paleoecological implications

4.5.3 The upper altitudinal forest limit

4.5.4 Human and climatic impact

4.5.5 The socioecological catastrophe

Appendix 4.1

Chapter 5 The transitional phase: Paleoecological impasse

5.1 Rano Kao and the dating problem

5.2 Rano Raraku

5.2.1 Paleolimnology and the Amerindian influence

5.2.2 Soil and vegetation degradation

5.3 Rano Aroi: More dating problems

5.4 Other studies

5.5 Paleoecological impasse

Chapter 6 The revival: An opportunity for climate change

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

6.1 Coring intensification and reanalysis

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Rull, Valentí. Paleoecological Research on Easter Island : Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts.

ISBN:

0128227478

9780128227473

Publisher Number:

40030178762

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