Editorial summary. This book synthesizes the available paleoecological knowledge from the last millennia of Easter Island to pave the way towards an integrated interdisciplinary vision of the island’s environmental-ecological-cultural system as a complex functional unit. Human and environmental deterministic views…
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The Elsevier book on the paleoecology of Easter Island already published!
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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New Springer book on the prehistory of Easter Island
Springer has approved the publication of a new book entitled The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards a Multidisciplinary Integrative Framework, edited by Valentí Rull and Christopher M. Stevenson. The book is aimed at presenting representative papers from a…
Tagged with: archaeology, biodiversity, biogeography, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Paleoecology of Easter Island – new eBook
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. A new eBook published by Frontiers (Lausane, Switzerland) provides a synthetic view of…
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, culture, deforestation, discovery, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, geology, history, human disturbance, journal, methods, migration, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, open access, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogenetics, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Job offer in Paleoecology
The Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (ICTJA), of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is looking for candidates for Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowships to develop research projects in paleoecology using pollen analysis. Candidates should have experience in Quaternary…
Tagged with: archaeology, Azores Islands, Chile, climate change, collapse, conservation, CSIC, cultural change, Easter Island, ecology, fire, global change, Holocene, individual fellowship, job, Last Glacial, Last Glacial Maximum, LGM, LIA, Litttle Ice Age, Marie Curie, MCA, Medieval Climatic Anomaly, offer, palynology, pollen, position, Pyrenees, YD, Younger Dryas
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Próxima presentación de libro de divulgación sobre Isla de Pascua
El libro de divulgación titulado: ‘La Isla de Pascua. Una visión científica‘ (Editorial CSIC-La Catarata), escrito por el Dr. Valentí Rull, investigador del Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera (CSIC), será presentado el martes 18 de Abril, a…
Tagged with: Ancient Cult, archaeology, Birdman Cult, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, Easter Island, ecological collapse, ecology, environmental degradation, etnology, fire, historical engimas, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, Pacific islands, paleoecology, palm forests, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, popular science, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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New popular book on Easter Island
In December 2016, I published a popular book on the misterious Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its emblematic giant stone statues (moais). The aim of this book is to inform the society about the latest results of scientific research on the socio-cultural…
Tagged with: Ancient Cult, archaeology, Birdman Cult, Chile, climatic change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, cultural collapse, deforestation, Easter Island, ecological collapse, ecology, environmental degradation, etnology, fire, historical engimas, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, Pacific islands, paleoecology, palm forests, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, popular science, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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