Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and deforestation in Rano Aroi: Implications for Easter Island's ecological and cultural history

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Rull, Valentí, Cañellas-Boltà, Núria, Margalef, Olga, Sáez, Alberto, Pla-Rabes, S., Giralt, Santiago
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pergamon Press 2015
• Subjects: Abrupt Island; Rapa; Rapa Nui
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/123236; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.008

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been considered an example of how societies can cause their own destruction through the overexploitation of natural resources. The flagship of this ecocidal paradigm is the supposed abrupt, island-wide deforestation that occurred about one millennium...