2024-03-28T10:42:20Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/888762018-09-20T13:02:08Zcom_10261_24com_10261_8com_10261_82com_10261_65com_10261_88col_10261_277col_10261_335col_10261_318col_10261_341
Rull, Valentí
Cañellas-Boltà, Núria
Sáez, Alberto
Margalef, Olga
Bao, Roberto
Pla-Rabes, S.
Valero-Garcés, Blas L.
Giralt, Santiago
2013-12-19T13:56:48Z
2013-12-19T13:56:48Z
2013-12-17
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 1 : 3 (2013)
2296-701X
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/88876
10.3389/fevo.2013.00003
The reigning paradigm holds that Easter Island suffered a socio-ecological collapse (ecocidal or not) sometime in the last millennium, prior to European contact (AD1720). We discuss some novel paleoecological and archaeological evidence that challenges this assumption. We use this case study to propose a closer collaboration between archaeology and paleoecology. This collaboration allows us to unravel historical trends in which both environmental changes and human activities might have acted, alone or coupled, as drivers of ecological and social transformations. We highlight a number of particular points in which scholars from disparate disciplines, working together, may enhance the scope and the soundness of historical inferences. These points are the following: (1) the timing of the initial Easter Island colonization and the origin of the settlers, (2)the pace of ecological and social transformations since that time until the present, and (3) the occurrence of potential climate-human synergies as drivers of socio-ecological shifts.
eng
openAccess
Paleoclimatology
Research synergies
Easter Island
Ecological breakdown
Social collapse
paleoecology
Challenging Easter Island's collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies
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