Oscillating climate and socio-political process: the case of the Marquesan Chiefdom, Polynesia

Antiquity - Tập 84 Số 323 - Trang 86-102 - 2010
Melinda S. Allen1
1*Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand (Email:

Tóm tắt

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 contact.

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