According to the current paradigm, the remote and enigmatic Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have been discovered and settled by Polynesian sailors between about 800 and 1200 CE. However, recent studies using the latest genomic,…
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Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
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
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Special issue on island colonization by humans
The journal Quaternary launches a new special issue entitled “The human footprint on islands – the ecological impact of discovery and colonization” edited by Erik de Boer (Institute of earth Science jaume Almera-CSIC, Spain), Lea de Nascimento (University of La Laguna, Spain),…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, Azores Islands, biodiversity, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human colonization, human disturbance, islands, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Quaternary Journal
Posted in Quaternary Journal
A holistic view of Easter Island’s history
CLAFS (Cimate-Landscape-Anthropogenic Feedbacks and Synergies) is a hypothesis integrating natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological and cultural change aimed at unraveling Easter Island’s history under a holistic perspective Our latest paper paper reviews the existing hypotheses concerning the cultural shift…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications
Posted in My publications
Video on the paleoecological study of a Pyrenean lake with annually-laminated sediments covering the last millennia
Tagged with: anthropocene, biodiversity, Catalonia, climate change, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, history, human disturbance, Limnology, Montcortès, natural resources, paleoecology, paleolimnology, palynology, pollen, popular science, Pyrenees, Quaternary, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Videos
Posted in Videos
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
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
The Azores Islands were populated a century and a half before their official colonization
In our latest paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, we provide sound evidence for agriculture and livestock farming in the São Miguel Island by 1290, about a century and a half prior to its official settlement. The most accepted date…
Tagged with: agriculture, animal husbandry, Azores Islands, deforestation, discovery, human colonization, human impact, human settlement, lake sediments, last centuries, laurisilva, livestock raising, Macaronesia, oceanic islands, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, reforestation, research paper, vegetation change, volcanic eruptions, volcanic islands
Posted in Research papers
Posted in Research papers
