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  • Prehistoric human impacts on Rapa, French Polynesia

  • Douglas Kennett, Atholl Anderson, Matthew Prebble, Eric Conte, John Southon
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 80 / Issue 308 / 1 June 2006
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 340-354
    Print publication:
    1 June 2006

  • New excavations and survey on the island of Rapa have shown that a rockshelter was occupied by early settlers around AD 1200 and the first hill forts were erected about 300 years later. Refortification occurred up to the contact period and proliferated around AD 1700. Taro cultivation in terraced pond-fields kept pace with the construction of forts. The authors make a connection between fort-building and making pond-fields, demonstrating that the pressure on resources provoked both the intensification of agriculture and hostility between the communities of the small island.