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
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
Welcome to the new islanders!
We are delighted to welcome the two new members who will be soon incorporated to our research group. Erik de Boer is a Dutch palynologist who obtained his PhD in the Univesity of Amsterdam working on the paleoecology of the…
Tagged with: Azores Islands, Easter Island, job, PALAB, position, postdoc, technician
Posted in PALAB
Posted in PALAB
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
Posted in Opportunities
Posted in Opportunities
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
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
Posted in Books
Posted in Books
