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

Paleocological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts examines the area's climatic and ecological history, a topic not usually addressed in other literature. The book provides a thorough and synthetic account of all paleoecological...

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Main Author: Rull, Valentí.
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Elsevier, 2020.
Subjects:
Paleoecology > Easter Island.
Paleoecology
Easter Island
Electronic books.
Online Access:ScienceDirect
Table of 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

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