The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies
Subtitle: archaeological and demographic perspectives
By: Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu, editors.
Contributors: Kirch, Patrick Vinton.; Rallu, Jean-Louis.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780824831349
Subjects: Ethnology -- Oceania; Ethnology -- Hawaii; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Oceania; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Hawaii; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Oceania; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Hawaii; Oceania -- Population -- History; Hawaii -- Population -- History; Oceania -- Antiquities; Hawaii -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
Table of contents: title: Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu; title: Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can projections meet retrodictions? / Jean-Louis Rallu; title: Demography and food in early Polynesia / Shripad Tuljapurkar, Charlotte Lee, and Michelle Figgs; title: "Like shoals of fish" : archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawaiʻi / Patrick V. Kirch; title: Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island / Thegn N. Ladefoged and Michael W. Graves; title: Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui : an archaeological approach / Patrick V. Kirch; title: Reconstructing Hawaiian population at European contact : three regional case studies / Ross Cordy; title: Pre-contact population in the 'Opunohu Valley, Mo'orea : an integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical approach / Brenda K. Hamilton and Jennifer G. Kahn; title: Estimating the population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas-French Polynesia) according to the archaeological remains / Eric Conte and Tamara Maric; title: Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga : 950 B.C. to the historic era / David V. Burley; title: Prehistoric Samoan population / Roger C. Green; title: An accent on atolls in approaches to population histories of remote Oceania / Valerie J. Green and Roger C. Green; title: Prehistoric population growth on Kosrae, eastern Caroline Islands / J. Stephen Athens; title: Population in a vegetable kingdom : Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European contact in 1830 / Matthew Spriggs; title: What were the real numbers? : the question of pre-contact population densities in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and A. Ouetcho; title: Concluding remarks : methods, measures, and models in Pacific paleodemography / Patrick V. Kirch.