Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui write by Sonia Haoa Cardinali. This book was released on 2017-08-09. Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of 1862 were to blame for the near extinction of the otherwise resilient Rapa Nui people. Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui brings together the latest studies by prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over the world to explore the island’s past and present, from its discovery by Polynesians, through the first documented contact with Western culture in 1722, to the 20th century. The exiting new volume looks beyond the moai to examine such questions as: was there was a cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui develop to adjust to naturally- or humanly-induced environmental change? This volume will appeal to scholars and professionals in the fields of history, archaeology and ecology, as well as anyone with an interest in the challenges of sustainable resource management, and the contentious history of Rapa Nui itself.
Easter Island - Rapa Nui
Easter Island - Rapa Nui - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Easter Island - Rapa Nui write by Andreas Mieth. This book was released on 2004. Easter Island - Rapa Nui available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) write by Valentí Rull. This book was released on 2022-07-11. The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main features of prehistoric Rapanui culture and their changes; (iii) the deforestation of the island and its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the indigenous biota, (v) the occurrence of climatic shifts and their potential effects on socioecological trends; (vi) the evidence for a cultural and demographic collapse before European contact; and (vii) the influence of Europeans on prehistoric Rapanui society. The book is subdivided into thematic sections and each chapter is written by renowned specialists in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, ethnography, linguistics, ethnobotany, phylogenetics/phylogeography and history. Contributors have been invited to provide an open and objective vision that includes as many views as possible on the topics considered. In this way, the readers may be able to compare different of points of view and make their own interpretations on each of the subjects considered. The book is intended for a wide audience including graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, university teachers and researchers interested in the subject. Given its multidisciplinary character and the topics included, the book is suitable for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines and interests.
Collapse
Collapse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collapse write by Jared Diamond. This book was released on 2013-03-21. Collapse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Paleoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change
Paleoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paleoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change write by Valentí Rull. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Paleoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island's ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. This eBook aims to provide a synthetic view of the topic using evidence from different research fields such as paleoecology, archaeology, history and molecular phylogenetics. A holistic approach is provided to combine the results of these research fields into a comprehensive framework able to account for most of the available multidisciplinary evidence. This eBook is dedicated to the memory of John R. Flenley, the pioneer of paleoecological study of Easter Island, who passed away on June 22, 2018.
