Oscillating climate and socio-political process: the case of the Marquesan Chiefdom, Polynesia
Abstract
Does climate affect behaviour and social process? In this case study, powerful scientific, anthropological and archaeological arguments are deployed to show that it can. The capricious climate of the latest centuries of the Marquesas Islands was instrumental in transforming a chieftain society into less hereditary and more flexible polities by the time of European...
Paper Details
Title
Oscillating climate and socio-political process: the case of the Marquesan Chiefdom, Polynesia
Published Date
Mar 1, 2010
Journal
Volume
84
Issue
323
Pages
86 - 102
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