Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview
Eastern Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for the legacy of an extinct civilization symbolized by the megalithic statues called moai. Several enigmas regarding the colonization of the island its deforestation and a presumed cultural collapse of the ancient civilization still remain elusive. According to t...
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ftubarcepubl:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/96734 2024-02-11T10:05:08+01:00 Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview Rull del Castillo, Valentí Cañellas Boltà, Núria Margalef Marrasé, Olga Pla Rabés, Sergi Sáez, Alberto Giralt Romeu, Santiago 2016-03-29 4 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2445/96734 eng eng Frontiers Media Reproducció del document publicat a: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00029 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016, vol. 4, num. 29, p. 1-4 Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà) http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00029 2296-701X http://hdl.handle.net/2445/96734 658915 cc-by (c) Rull, Valentí et al., 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Paleoecologia Paleoclimatologia Islàndia Paleoecology Paleoclimatology Iceland info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftubarcepubl https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00029 2024-01-24T00:59:23Z Eastern Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for the legacy of an extinct civilization symbolized by the megalithic statues called moai. Several enigmas regarding the colonization of the island its deforestation and a presumed cultural collapse of the ancient civilization still remain elusive. According to the prevailing view, the first settlers arrived between AD 800 and AD 1200 from east Polynesia and overexploited the island's natural resources causing an ecological catastrophe leading to a cultural collapse (Flenley and Bahn, 2003 ). The main evidence for this theory was the abrupt replacement of palm pollen by grass pollen in the sediments of the island's lakes and mires (Raraku, Kao, and Aroi), which was interpreted in terms of a thorough deforestation between approximately AD 1200 and AD 1400/1600 (Flenley and King, 1984; Flenley et al., 1991; Mann et al., 2008). This ecocidal view is widely accepted not only by the scientific community but also by society, thanks to its popularization by the mass media. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona Rapa ENVELOPE(15.539,15.539,69.033,69.033) Rapa Nui ENVELOPE(-60.800,-60.800,-62.450,-62.450) Eastern Island ENVELOPE(-55.815,-55.815,52.817,52.817) Moai ENVELOPE(-60.800,-60.800,-62.450,-62.450) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4 |
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Eastern Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for the legacy of an extinct civilization symbolized by the megalithic statues called moai. Several enigmas regarding the colonization of the island its deforestation and a presumed cultural collapse of the ancient civilization still remain elusive. According to the prevailing view, the first settlers arrived between AD 800 and AD 1200 from east Polynesia and overexploited the island's natural resources causing an ecological catastrophe leading to a cultural collapse (Flenley and Bahn, 2003 ). The main evidence for this theory was the abrupt replacement of palm pollen by grass pollen in the sediments of the island's lakes and mires (Raraku, Kao, and Aroi), which was interpreted in terms of a thorough deforestation between approximately AD 1200 and AD 1400/1600 (Flenley and King, 1984; Flenley et al., 1991; Mann et al., 2008). This ecocidal view is widely accepted not only by the scientific community but also by society, thanks to its popularization by the mass media. |
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Rull del Castillo, Valentí Cañellas Boltà, Núria Margalef Marrasé, Olga Pla Rabés, Sergi Sáez, Alberto Giralt Romeu, Santiago |
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Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview |
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Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview |
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Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview |
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Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview |
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Three Millennia of Climatic, Ecological, and Cultural Change on Easter Island: An Integrative Overview |
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three millennia of climatic, ecological, and cultural change on easter island: an integrative overview |
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Reproducció del document publicat a: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00029 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016, vol. 4, num. 29, p. 1-4 Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà) http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00029 2296-701X http://hdl.handle.net/2445/96734 658915 |
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