The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives 9780824864767

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The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives 9780824864767

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
1. Long-Term Demographic Evolution in the Pacific Islands
2. Pre- and Post-Contact Population in Island Polynesia
3. Demography and Food in Early Polynesia
4. “Like Shoals of Fish”
5. Modeling Agricultural Development and Demography in Kohala, Hawai‘i
6. Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui
7. Reconstructing Hawaiian Population at European Contact
8. Pre-Contact Population in the ‘Opunohu Valley, Mo‘orea
9. Estimating the Population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas, French Polynesia) According to the Archaeological Remains
10. Archaeological Demography and Population Growth in the Kingdom of Tonga
11. Protohistoric Samoan Population
12. An Accent on Atolls in Approaches to Population Histories of Remote Oceania
13. Prehistoric Population Growth on Kosrae, Eastern Caroline Islands
14. Population in a Vegetable Kingdom
15. What were the Real Numbers?
16. Concluding Remarks
References
List of Contributors
Index

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