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The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies (Record no. 205377)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.0995
245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Honolulu :
Name of publisher University of Hawai�i Press,
Year of publication c2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xvi, 390 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Ethnology
Topical Term Ethnology
Topical Term First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Topical Term First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Topical Term Excavations (Archaeology)
Topical Term Excavations (Archaeology)
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kirch, Patrick Vinton.
Personal name Rallu, Jean-Louis.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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