The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies archaeological and demographic perspectives /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Kirch, Patrick Vinton, Rallu, Jean-Louis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu
  • Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can projections meet retrodictions? / Jean-Louis Rallu
  • Demography and food in early Polynesia / Shripad Tuljapurkar, Charlotte Lee, and Michelle Figgs
  • "Like shoals of fish" : archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawaiʻi / Patrick V. Kirch
  • Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island / Thegn N. Ladefoged and Michael W. Graves
  • Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui : an archaeological approach / Patrick V. Kirch
  • Reconstructing Hawaiian population at European contact : three regional case studies / Ross Cordy
  • Pre-contact population in the 'Opunohu Valley, Mo'orea : an integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical approach / Brenda K. Hamilton and Jennifer G. Kahn
  • Estimating the population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas-French Polynesia) according to the archaeological remains / Eric Conte and Tamara Maric
  • Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga : 950 B.C. to the historic era / David V. Burley
  • Prehistoric Samoan population / Roger C. Green
  • An accent on atolls in approaches to population histories of remote Oceania / Valerie J. Green and Roger C. Green
  • Prehistoric population growth on Kosrae, eastern Caroline Islands / J. Stephen Athens
  • Population in a vegetable kingdom : Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European contact in 1830 / Matthew Spriggs
  • What were the real numbers? : the question of pre-contact population densities in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and A. Ouetcho
  • Concluding remarks : methods, measures, and models in Pacific paleodemography / Patrick V. Kirch.