The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Introduction<div>Title: Aims, scope and contents of the book</div><div>Authors: Valentí Rull, Christopher M. Stevenson, Thegn Ladefoged</div><div><br></div><div>Part I. Transpacific voyaging and settlement</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 1</div>Title: Southern Ocean climate influence on trans-eastern pacific voyaging and colonization of Easter Island<div>Authors: Ian D. Goodwin, Stuart A. Browning</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 2</div><div>Title: Computer simulation of the ocean voyages required for the colonization of Rapa Nui</div><div>Authors: John Temmen, Alvaro Montenegro, Valentí Rull</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3</div><div>Title: Ahu Nau Nau re-visited: new perspectives on old problems at Anakena, RapaNui</div><div>Authors: Paul Wallin, Helene Martinsson-Wallin</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 4</div><div>Title: Geological processes determining the human occupation of Rapa Nui</div><div>Authors: Alberto Sáez, Olga Margalef, Santiago Giralt, Sergi Pla, Laura Becerril, Christian Herrera, James Goff</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5</div><div>Title: Sweet potato in Easter Island: insights from a monographic study of the genus Ipomoea</div><div>Authors: Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez, Robert Scotland</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 6</div>Title: Appraisal of the origins and timing of Rapa Nui’s early settlement<div>Author: Claudio Cristino, Patricia Vargas</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 7</div><div>Title: Prehistoric genetic and cultural relationships between Easter Island and Tiwanaku (Bolivia, Titikaka Lake Altiplano)</div><div>Authors: Antonio Arnaiz</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 8</div><div>Title: mtDNA from chickens and how this relates to human settlement of the Pacific</div><div>Authors: Jeremy Austin</div><div><br></div><div>Part II. The ancient Rapanui culture</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 9</div><div>Title: An assessment of refuge caves (ana kionga) on Rapa Nui</div><div>Authors: Christopher M. Stevenson, Juan G. Borrega, José M. Ramírez</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 10</div><div>Title: Vinapu area revisited</div><div>Authors: Helene Martinsson-Wallin</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 11</div><div>Title: Crematoria and cremations in Rapa Nui traditional society</div><div>Authors: Helene Martinsson-Wallin</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 12</div><div>Title: Health and diet of ancient Easter Islanders: contribution from bioarchaeology</div><div>Authors: Caroline Polet</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 13</div><div>Title: Undelivered moai or unidentified monument?</div><div>Authors: Nicolas Cauwe, Morgan De Dapper</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 14</div><div>Title: Reconstructions and condemnations of cult platforms</div><div>Authors: Nicolas Cauwe</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 15</div><div>Title: Palms for the archaeologist</div><div>Author: David W. Ingersoll, Kathleen B. Ingersoll</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 16</div><div>Title: Rano Raraku quarry excavations</div><div>Author: Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Mads Ravn, Casey R. Barrier, Alice Horn</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 17</div><div>Title: Microstratigraphy in Rano Raraku: implications for slope development and site formation in the moai quarry</div><div>Author: Sarah C. Sherwood, Jo Anne Van Tilburg</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 18</div><div>Title: History intrinsic in Rapanui and Māori cultural traditions, and the revitalization of waka horua (canoe voyaging) and traditional celestial navigation</div><div>Authors: Kate Souness et al.</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 19</div><div>Title: Geological origin and geomorphology of the Rano Raraku landform – providing context for human land use and archaeological study</div><div>Author: Richard K. Dunn</div><div><br></div>Chapter 20<div>Title: The influence of climate, lava weathering and rock gardens on Easter island’s rock-derived soil nutrients</div><div>Authors: Oliver Chadwick, Nina Bringham, Cedric Puleston, Thegn Ladefoged, Peter Vitousek, Sonia Haoa, Christopher M. Stevenson</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 21</div><div>Title: Pollen, phytolith, and starch evidence for agricultural plants on Rapa Nui</div>Author: Linda S. Cummings<div><br></div><div>Part III. Climatic and environmental change</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 22</div><div>Title: Prehistoric paleoecology of Easter Island: historical account and a synthesis of the main contributions</div><div>Author: Valentí Rull</div><br><div>Chapter 23</div><div>Title: Climatology of Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island) Chile</div><div>Authors: Raymond S. Bradley, Henry F. Diaz, William J. D’Andrea, Liang Ning</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 24</div><div>Title: Changing environment and the socio-ecological evolution of Easter Island</div>Author: David A. Sear, Melinda Allen, Pete Langdon, Alex Morrison, Justin Sheffield, John Dearing<div><br></div><div>Chapter 25</div><div>Title: Easter Island past hydrological balance as inferred from Rano Aroi pound record: clarifying the role of the ENSO phases</div><div>Authors: Bruno Malaizé, Thierry Delcroix, Anne-Marie Sémah, Thibaut Caley, Isabelle Billy, Michel Orliac, Sonia Haoa Cardinali, Christine Hatté, Rodrigo Abarca del Rio, Anne-Laure Daniau, Charlotte Skonieczny, Catherine Orliac</div><br><div>Chapter 26</div><div>Title: Lipid-based records of hydroclimate change during the occupancy period of Rapa Nui</div><div>Authors: William J. D’Andrea, Raymond S. Bradley, Andrea Seelenfreund, Núria Cañellas-Boltà, Olga Margalef, Santiago Giralt, Alberto Sáez, Sergi Pla-Rabes, Valentí Rull</div><div><br></div><div>Part IV. Deforestation and extinctions</div><br><div>Chapter 27</div><div>Title: Economic causes and consequences of deforestation on Easter Island (alternative: Open-access resources and the rise and fall of Easter Island)</div><div>Author: James Brander</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 28</div><div>Title: Spatial and temporal patterns of deforestation and other socioecological features of Easter Island</div><div>Author: Peter Steiglechner, Esteban Acevedo-Trejos, Agostino Merico</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 29</div><div>Title: Flora of Easter Island – past and present</div><div>Author: Georg Zizka</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 30</div>Title: Interpreting past terrestrial ecosystems of Rapa Nui: documenting palaeoecological proxies for biodiversity change<div>Authors: Matthew Prebble, Núria Cañellas-Boltà, Olga Margalef, Mark Horrocks, Dorren Bowdery, Dave McWethy, Valentí Rull</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 31</div><div>Title: Morphological changes of the Te Niu landscape from AD 1300 to the mid-19th century</div><div>Author: Joan A. Wozniak</div><div><br></div><div>Part V. Collapse or resilience?</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 32</div><div>Title: Population dynamic principles applied to Rapa Nui human fluctuations</div><div>Authors: Mauricio Lima, Eugenia M. Gayo, Sergio A. Estay, Nils C. Stenseth</div><div><br></div>Chapter 33<div>Title: Environmental change and cultural continuity – the extraordinary achievements of the Rapa Nui society after deforestation</div><div>Authors: Andreas Mieth, Burkhad Vogt, Annette Külhem, Hans-Rudolf Bork</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 34</div><div>Title: Malthusian models and population history of Rapa Nui</div><div>Authors: Carl L. Lipo, Robert DiNapoli, Terry L. Hunt</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 35</div><div>Title: The population dynamics of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): synthesizing advances from the fields of archaeology, demography and ecology</div><div>Author: Cedric O. Puleston, Thegn Ladefoged</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 36</div><div>Title: What did collapse on Rapa Nui before European contact?</div><div>Author: Claudio Cristino, Patricia Vargas</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 37</div><div>Title: Modeling the Easter Island population and ecology with uncertainty and Bayesian parameter inference</div><div>Author: William Basener</div><div><br></div><div>Part VI. European contact</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 38</div><div>Title: The struggle to be Rapanui: some sharp points about remote Easter Island</div><div>Author: Grant McCall</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 39</div><div>Title: First contact and after: social, political, and cultural change on Rapa Nui 1722-1900</div><div>Author: Joshua Pollard, Kate Welham</div>