Sujet
Geomorphic Consequences, Archaeological Consequences, Human Arrival, Agricultural Expansion, Pacific Islands, Debate, Human-Environment Relations, Environmental Determinism, Landscape Change, Geoff Hope, Fieldwork, Aneityum, Vanuatu, Settlement Patterns, Archaeology, Site Distribution, Surface Survey Methods, Pedestrian Environmental Determinism, Humanly Induced, Validity, Scale of Archaeology, Pacific Islands Context, Debate History, Landscape Change Propositions

Domaines
Archéologie, Anthropologie, Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

The paper reflects on the history of debate over human-environment relations in the Pacific, challenging the misrepresentation of that history by some recent discussions. It discusses the shift from a pedestrian environmental determinism paradigm to the idea of humanly induced or accelerated landscape change, influenced by scholars like Geoff Hope. The author's own fieldwork on the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu is mentioned as being influenced by these new ideas. The paper aims to examine the four linked propositions related to human-accelerated landscape change and assess their validity over time.

Mots-clés

Langue
English (en-GB)

Auteurs
Spriggs, Matthew

Contributeurs

Sources
In: S. G. Haberle, J. Stevenson, & M. Prebble (Eds.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes (Vol. 32, pp. 239–252).

Relation
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24h8rj.15

Couverture
Pacific Islands, Aneityum, Vanuatu

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