ABSTRACT
The steepness of Hawaiians decline recommends a model for the post-Columbian demographic history of the Amerindians. The Hawaiian islands is one of the most isolated island in the world over two thousand miles from the nearest continent North America and hundreds of miles from the nearest islands, capable of supporting more than a handful of inhabitants. The archeological record supports the hypothesis that the pre-Cook Hawaiians had few infectious diseases. The new right-off-the-shelf and ready-for-instant-use explanation is that the Amerindians unlike Africans or Asians died in huge numbers of Old World diseases across the Atlantic by Columbus and his emulators are easily displaced and replaced by the invaders. The Hawaiians decrease with Europeans and North Americans provides a model to find the testing theories about the connection between aboriginal population crash and contacts with the west. The documentation is considerable in quantity and respectable in quality, and the influence of tangential factors gets limited.
