Prehistoric agricultural production on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

Stevenson, Christopher M.; Wozniak, Joan; Haoa, Sonia

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00065546

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“…The effects of drought, wind, and soil erosion could have intensified as forest cover declined over 400e 500 years. Perhaps as a consequence, even early Rapa Nui agriculture comprised managed soils and field systems using stone mulch and enclosures (manavai) (e.g., Ayala-Bradford et al, 2005;Bork et al, 2004;Stevenson et al, 1999;Wozniak, 1999). As Stevenson et al (1999, p. 811) hypothesize; stone mulch agricultural systems may date to as early as the 14th century.…”

Section: Rats and Rapa Nuimentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe

Hunt

2007

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Rats and Rapa Nuimentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe

Hunt

2007

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…There are few new sequences of agricultural change and development additional to those used originally in the formulation of the proposition for Western Polynesia and island Melanesia, where suitably long sequences can be expected -New Caledonia is a notable exception (Sand 1999(Sand , 2002Carlson 2008). In Eastern Polynesia, much more detailed information is available; for instance, most recently for Maui and Hawai'i islands (Ladefoged and Graves 2000;Ladefoged et al 2003;Kirch et al 2004;Vitousek et al 2004), Easter Island (Stevenson et al 1999(Stevenson et al , 2006Mieth and Bork 2005), and New Zealand (Barber 2004, and references therein). Initial settlement dates remain controversial, however, for many Eastern Polynesian archipelagos, making the definitive establishment of cultural sequences difficult (Spriggs In press).…”

Section: Proposition 4: a Two-stage Response To Erosion Damagementioning

confidence: 99%

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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“…Much recent work has investigated the development, expansion, and intensification of dryland agricultural systems and associated settlements in Eastern Polynesian islands (Allen 2001;Burtchard and TomonariTuggle 2004;Dixon et al 2002;Kirch et al 2004aKirch et al , 2005Ladefoged et al 1996Ladefoged et al , 2003Stevenson et al 1999;Wozniak 2001Wozniak , 2003. New Zealand research has focused on the limits and extent of intensified dryland cultivation of kumara (sweet potato) (Higham and Grumbley 2001;Law 1999).…”

Section: Agricultural Productionmentioning

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Advances in Polynesian Prehistory: A Review and Assessment of the Past Decade (1993–2004)

Kirch

Kahn

2007

J Archaeol Res

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The pace of archaeological research in Polynesia has intensified in recent years, resulting in more than 500 new literature citations over the past decade. Fieldwork has continued in such previously well-studied archipelagoes as Tonga and Samoa in Western Polynesia, and Hawai'i and New Zealand in Eastern Polynesia, and has expanded into previously neglected islands including Niue, the Equatorial Islands, the Austral Islands, and Mangareva. The emergence of Ancestral Polynesian culture out of its Eastern Lapita predecessor is increasingly well understood, and the chronology of Polynesian dispersal and expansion into Eastern Polynesia has engaged several researchers. Aside from these fundamental issues of origins and chronology, major research themes over the past decade include (1) defining the nature, extent, and timing of long-distance interaction spheres, particularly in Eastern Polynesia; (2) the impacts of human colonization and settlement on island ecosystems; (3) variation in Polynesian economic systems and their transformations over time; and (4) sociopolitical change, especially as viewed through the lens of household or microscale archaeology. Also noteworthy is the rapidly evolving nature of interactions between archaeologists and native communities, a critical aspect of archaeological practice in the region.

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Prehistoric agricultural production on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe

Rethinking Easter Island's ecological catastrophe

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Advances in Polynesian Prehistory: A Review and Assessment of the Past Decade (1993–2004)

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