" With unparalleled knowledge of Polynesia's history, ecology, languages, and archaeology,
Patrick V. Kirch shows us how, when, and why Hawaiian society crossed the gulf from …

Here, we expand on the term “ecomimicry” to be an umbrella concept for an approach to
adaptive ecosystem-based management of social-ecological systems that simultaneously …

Historians and archaeologists define primary states—" cradles of civilization" from which all
modern nation states ultimately derive—as significant territorially-based, autonomous …

The value of land-use strategies that increase food production while conserving biodiversity
is widely recognized. Many indigenous agroecosystems are productive, adaptive and …

The human ecodynamics approach in archaeology privileges landscape as a core concept,
asserting that there can be no environment or ecosystem detached from humans and their …

How should archaeologists and other social scientists tackle the big and little questions
about change in socionatural systems? Although fieldwork is certainly the place to start, it …

Intensive agricultural systems interact strongly and reciprocally with features of the lands
they occupy, and with features of the societies that they support. We modeled the distribution …

Abstract The Soutwest (SW) Pacific is an expansive oceanic region with many of its islands
difficult to access and relatively unexplored in a geoheritage context. Here we provide a …

Before European contact, Native Hawaiian agriculture was highly adapted to place and
expressed a myriad of forms. Although the iconic lo 'i systems (flooded irrigated terraces) are …

The incongruity between the small and apparently impoverished Rapa Nui population that
early European travelers encountered and the magnificence of its numerous and massive …