The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies : archaeological and demographic perspectives / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu, editors.

Contributor(s): Kirch, Patrick Vinton | Rallu, Jean-LouisMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai°i Press, c2007Description: xvi, 390 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780824831349 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): 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 -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 306.0995 LOC classification: GN662 | .G76 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu -- Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can projections meet retrodictions? / Jean-Louis Rallu -- Demography and food in early Polynesia / Shripad Tuljapurkar, Charlotte Lee, and Michelle Figgs -- Like shoals of fish : archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawai°i / Patrick V. Kirch -- Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawai°i Island / Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves -- Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui : an archaeological approach / Patrick V. Kirch -- Reconstructing Hawaiian population at European contact : three regional case studies / Ross Cordy -- Pre-contact population in the Opunohu Valley, Moorea : an integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical approach / Brenda K. Hamilton and Jennifer G. Kahn -- Estimating the population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas-French Polynesia) according to the archaeological remains / Eric Conte and Tamara Maric -- Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga 950 B.C. to the historic era / David V. Burley -- Prehistoric Samoan population / Roger C. Green -- An accent on atolls in approaches to population histories of remote Oceania / Valerie J. Green and Roger C. Green -- Prehistoric population growth on Kosrae, eastern Caroline Islands / J. Stephen Athens -- Population in a vegetable kingdom : Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European contact in 1830 / Matthew Spriggs -- What were the real numbers? : the question of pre-contact population densities in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and A. Ouetcho -- Ancient populations in the Pacific islands : methods, measures, and models / Patrick V. Kirch.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu -- Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can projections meet retrodictions? / Jean-Louis Rallu -- Demography and food in early Polynesia / Shripad Tuljapurkar, Charlotte Lee, and Michelle Figgs -- Like shoals of fish : archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawai°i / Patrick V. Kirch -- Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawai°i Island / Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves -- Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui : an archaeological approach / Patrick V. Kirch -- Reconstructing Hawaiian population at European contact : three regional case studies / Ross Cordy -- Pre-contact population in the Opunohu Valley, Moorea : an integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical approach / Brenda K. Hamilton and Jennifer G. Kahn -- Estimating the population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas-French Polynesia) according to the archaeological remains / Eric Conte and Tamara Maric -- Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga 950 B.C. to the historic era / David V. Burley -- Prehistoric Samoan population / Roger C. Green -- An accent on atolls in approaches to population histories of remote Oceania / Valerie J. Green and Roger C. Green -- Prehistoric population growth on Kosrae, eastern Caroline Islands / J. Stephen Athens -- Population in a vegetable kingdom : Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European contact in 1830 / Matthew Spriggs -- What were the real numbers? : the question of pre-contact population densities in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and A. Ouetcho -- Ancient populations in the Pacific islands : methods, measures, and models / Patrick V. Kirch.