Soils, Agriculture, and Society in Precontact Hawai`i
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23328658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter M Vitousek (0000-0003-4933-2666, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author), T N Ladefoged (0000-0002-6950-9898, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.), P V Kirch (0000-0003-4264-6689, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.), Anthony S Hartshorn (0000-0002-0004-5749, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Michael W Graves (0000-0002-4789-0130, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Sara C Hotchkiss (0000-0002-0383-0144, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Shripad Tuljapurkar (0000-0001-5549-4245, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Oliver A Chadwick (0000-0002-4964-6203, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 304 |
| Issue | 5677 |
| Pages | 1665-1669 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1099619 |
| PMID | 15192228 |
| OpenAlex | W2048500526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 20 |
Before European contact, Hawai`i supported large human populations in complex societies that were based on multiple pathways of intensive agriculture. We show that soils within a long-abandoned 60-square-kilometer dryland agricultural complex are substantially richer in bases and phosphorus than are those just outside it, and that this enrichment predated the establishment of intensive agriculture. Climate and soil fertility combined to constrain large dryland agricultural systems and the societies they supported to well-defined portions of just the younger islands within the Hawaiian archipelago; societies on the older islands were based on irrigated wetland agriculture. Similar processes may have influenced the dynamics of agricultural intensification across the tropics.
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Archipelago · Biology · Dryland farming · Geography · Soil fertility · Soil water · Tropics · Wetland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Environmental Science · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
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Agroecology of pre-contact Hawaiian dryland farming
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| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |