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The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies : archaeological and demographic perspectives /
- Title
- The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies : archaeological and demographic perspectives / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu, editors.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2007.
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- Description
- xvi, 390 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Ethnology > Oceania
- Oceania > Antiquities
- Ethnology > Hawaii
- Hawaii > Population > History
- Hawaii > Antiquities
- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Oceania
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Oceania
- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Hawaii
- Oceania > Population > History
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Hawaii
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780824831349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824831349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006034505
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library