Oceania (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barry V. Rolett.

This report presents the results of archaeological excavations conducted from June 12 - July 20, 1990 at Site 50-80-15-3300 on Bellows Air Force Base. The excavations were conducted by the University of Hawaii Archaeological Field School, as the continuation of a project begun in 1989 (Rolett 1990). The 1990 Field School project was a contiguous 23 m areal excavation immediately adjacent to a 12 m2 promising portion of the site excavated during the 1989 reconnaissance. Our primary objectives...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Flexner.

A mounded landscape in south Vanuatu provides archaeological evidence relating to chiefly performance, voyaging, and ritual transformation during a period of cross-cultural contacts spanning 400 years or more. The site of Kwaraka is located at the southern end of Tanna Island. The area has a view on clear days of the neighbouring islands Futuna and Aniwa, and there is ethnohistoric evidence of long-term patterns of interaction between Tannese people and the people of these nearby islands....

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Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Embree.

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A series of fact sheets on the Advanced Electro-Optical Systems on Maui.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peregrine Gerard-Little.

This report presents the results of a property inventory conducted on behalf of the United States Air Force (USAF) at Bellows Air Force Station (Bellows AFS), Hawai‘i. The work was conducted in order to complete substantive requirements under Section 106 (54 USC Section 306108) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (NHPA), for the Military Munition Response Program (MMRP) remedial action (RA) at Munitions Response Sites (MRS) TG001 (Former Large Bomb Range), TS002...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Flexner.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transformation of island environments and settlement patterns resulting from missionisation and Christian conversion is a well-developed theme in the historical archaeology of Oceania. The Mangareva Islands in French Polynesia provide an exemplary case study, featuring dozens of stone structures built by the Catholic Pères des Sacrés Cœurs beginning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael F. Dega.

This archaeological monitoring plan (AMP) has been done in preparation for archaeological monitoring and sampling of cultural resources during ordinance and explosive removal action at Bellows Air Force Station (BAFS), Waimanalo, Ko'olaupoko, O'ahu Island, Hawai'i. This project, included in Delivery Order #0038, Contract DACA83-95-D-0004, consists of three 7 phases of archaeological work: monitoring during initial vegetation clearance, reconnaissance and systematic survey during pedestrian...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Valerie Nagahara.

Analysis of stone artifacts from the Field School.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Riordan. Julie Field.

This is an abstract from the "Geospatial Studies in the Archaeology of Oceania" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The concept of landscapes of movement establishes the theoretical basis for understanding meaning behind the creation and use of roads, trails, and pathways. This meaning can be categorized by "prioritized relationships" (i.e., social, political, religious, economic) which ultimately stimulate the existence of landscapes of movement. This...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University.

An annotated bibliography of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) System. The DEW Line was an integrated chain of early warning radar and communication stations constructed between 1953 and 1957 from northwestern Alaska across northern Canada. The DEW System remained in use throughout the mid to late 1980s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was replaced with the North Warning System (NWS).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Huebert.

The native forests of the central and eastern Pacific Islands were extensively modified by Polynesian settlers, but our understanding of these processes are generalised. In the first large study of anthropogenic forest change in the Marquesas Islands, the identification of two members of the Sapotaceae family in archaeological charcoal assemblages was notable. Plants from this taxonomic group are poorly represented in Eastern Polynesia today, and the findings of Planchonella and another species...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rona Ikehara-Quebral. Judith McNeill. Michele Toomay Douglas. Michael Pietrusewsky.

This is an abstract from the "Research and CRM Are Not Mutually Exclusive: J. Stephen Athens—Forty Years and Counting" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resources Management studies in the Mariana Islands have consistently expanded opportunities for in-depth bioarchaeological research. Burial assemblages originating from historic preservation compliance obligations generally derive from one of three contexts: displaced fragmentary remains;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann K. Yoklavich. Spencer Leineweber.

Appendix F to the 2002 Bellows Air Force Station cultural resources management plan. Contains an architectural inventory of pre-1950s military resources at Bellows AFS.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Prebble. Seth Quintus. Ethan Cochrane.

This is an abstract from the "Geospatial Studies in the Archaeology of Oceania" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development and present nature of landscape archaeology in the Pacific owes much to the pioneering work of Janet Davidson and Roger Green in Falefa Valley, Upolu, Sāmoa. This research, completed in the absence of modern geospatial technology, not only demonstrated the potential of landscape-scale investigations in Polynesia but also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Swift.

Stable isotope analysis of small commensal fauna provides a novel approach to paleoecological reconstruction and investigations of human site activities. The human translocation of rat species, especially the black rat (Rattus rattus), brown rat (R. norvegicus), and Pacific rat (R. exulans), has significantly—and often deleteriously—impacted native floral and faunal communities, particularly within island ecosystems. Rats are small-bodied omnivores with limited home ranges and highly generalized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Huebert. Melinda S. Allen.

Contact-period accounts point to considerable variability in Polynesian agronomic production systems. In the Marquesas Islands, a mountainous island group in the eastern Pacific, food production in the proto-historic period was narrowly focused on tree cropping and breadfruit cultivation in particular. Early western visitors remarked on the archipelago’s large and thriving island populations, and their stable and productive arboricultural systems. In this paper, we present the results of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael F. Dega. David K. Latinis. Randy H. Ogg.

At the request of CH2M Hill, Scientific Consultant Services provided archaeological monitoring during the removal of five underground storage tanks (UST) at Bellows Air Force Station (BAFS). Fieldwork was conducted from 29 July to 8 August 1997. Removal or mitigation of these tanks was performed by Environmental Sciences Pacific, Inc. as part of the Excess Land Underground Storage Tank Removal Project at Site ST-11. A sparse scatter of recent historic debris, mostly glass fragments, was found...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trever Duarte. Jon Tulchin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thousands of charcoal specimens from 23 traditional Hawaiian sites throughout Ka’ūpūlehu Ahupua’a in north Kona were analyzed to see how kama’aina (“people of the land”) interacted with their environment. Fifty-one plant taxa, including 36 plants of Hawaiian origin and six Polynesian introductions, were identified. Combining charcoal identification and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Stephen Athens.

Plan outlining data recovery methods for archaeological resources at the OMNI Antenna Pad and Cable Trench. The major research question that will be addressed in the proposed data recovery at the OMNI antenna and cable trench location concerns the function of site utilization.

DOCUMENT Full-Text H. David Tuggle.

This report summarizes the monitoring conducted in support of planned construction of irrigation line installation, seawall repair, and correction of borrow material for seawall repair.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maurice Major. Thomas Dye.

Prior to installation of the communication line, T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. carried out a subsurface inventory survey along the proposed communication line route within site 50–80–15–4853 and completed test excavations south of the site within MCTAB to search for buried cultural deposits. During installation of the communication line T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. carried out archaeological monitoring. The primary focus of the archaeological monitoring was on the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Windy K. McElroy.

The primary focus of the project was on the discovery and appropriate treatment of historic properties potentially affected by the dormitory construction. The archaeological inventory survey of the proposed site for dormitory construction yielded secondary deposits of modern cultural material in trenches 1-5. The pattern of the secondary deposits in the trenches indicates that they represent formerly deep swales that ran parallel to the modern beach. Artifactual material indicates that the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Argonne National Laboratory.

Memo monitoring report for emergency waterline repair. Emergency repair of the broken waterline did not impact any historic properties.