Challenging Easter Island’s collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies

Challenging Easter Island’s collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies

The reigning paradigm holds that Easter Island suffered an eco-societal collapse (ecocidal or not) sometime in the last millennium, prior to European contact (AD 1720). We discuss some novel palaeoecological and archaeological evidence that challenges this assumption. We use this case study to propo...

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Main Authors: Valentí eRull, Núria eCañellas-Boltà, Alberto eSaez, Olga eMargalef, Roberto eBao, Sergi ePla-Rabes, Blas eValero-Garcés, Santiago eGiralt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
palaeoclimatology
Palaeoecology
Easter Island
ecological breakdown
societal collapse
research synergies
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2013.00003/full

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