Defending the Defensible

A Rebuttal of Scott Fitzpatrick’s (2010) Critique of the AD 1300 Event Model with Particular Reference to Palau

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ID20493988
AutoresPatrick Nunn (0000-0001-9295-5741, University of New England), Patrick D Nunn, Rosalind Hunter-Anderson, Rosalind L Hunter-Anderson (0000-0002-9317-6130, University of New Mexico)
Año2010
Volumen2
Número1
Páginas92-99
Fecha de publicación2010-12-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Pacific Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1179-4704 • E-ISSN: 1179-4712
EditorialNew Zealand Archaeological Association (PUBLISHER • NZ)
DOI10.70460/jpa.v2i1.37
OpenAlexW1939803693
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas15

In a recent article [Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol 1(2), 2010], Scott Fitzpatrick contends that the AD 1300 event model is unhelpful as a key to understanding environmental and societal change in the Pacific during the past 1500 years. We reject this contention on the grounds that there are ample and persuasive grounds for supposing otherwise. The AD 1300 event model proposes that climate change (especially cooling) and sea-level fall affected most of the Pacific Basin during the transition between the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, and that the impacts of these changes on food resources were so profound that they led to enduring impacts on human societies in this region, particularly Pacific Islands. We aver that the AD 1300 event model remains a powerful tool for understanding last-millennium environmental and societal change in the Pacific Islands and that all the charges Fitzpatrick levels against it can be readily dismissed

Epistemology · Physics · Political science · Rebuttal · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy