The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies archaeological and demographic perspectives / [electronic resource] : Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu, editors. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2007. - xvi, 390 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) 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 Hawaiʻi / Patrick V. Kirch -- Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island / Thegn N. Ladefoged and Michael W. 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, Mo'orea : 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 -- Concluding remarks : methods, measures, and models in Pacific paleodemography / Patrick V. Kirch.


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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.


Electronic books.

GN662 / .G76 2007eb

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