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An island-wide assessment of the chronology of settlement and land use on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) based on radiocarbon data
Mara A. Mulrooney, 2013. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Compiles and screens the island's radiocarbon dates and finds land use continuing across the island through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with no island-wide abandonment before contact.
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The radiocarbon dataset and the first systematic test of the collapse narrative.
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Mulrooney, M. A. (2013). An island-wide assessment of the chronology of settlement and land use on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) based on radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.020
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Mulrooney, Mara A.. “An island-wide assessment of the chronology of settlement and land use on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) based on radiocarbon data.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.020.