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The objective of this document is to correct and update the 2001 EBS so that it can be certified. In 1996 the U.S. Air Force conducted an Environmental Baseline Survey (EBS) on an approximately 170-acre parcel at Bellows Air Force Station (BAFS) that they declared excess. The purpose of that survey was to define and document the presence, nature, and extent of hazardous substances that may require remedial action to protect human health or the environment in accordance with Air Force Instruction...
Placing the Early Pre-Latte Period Site of San Roque on Saipan in Its Broader Context (2021)
This is an abstract from the "When the Wild Winds Blow: Micronesia Colonization in Pacific Context" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This comparative assessment of the San Roque site in northern Saipan to other early Pre-Latte period sites in the Mariana Islands, circa 1500–1100 BC, presents far from uniform data that suggest that maritime settlers of the archipelago may have targeted a range of natural settings for survival upon arrival. These...
POLLEN ANALYSIS FOR WAILUA 15, KUAMO’O ROAD, WAILUA, KAUA’I (2011)
Three pollen samples collected at Wailua 15, along Kuamo’o Road in Wailua, Kaua’i were examined to provide vegetation information for the time periods represented. Two cores (1 and 2) are represented by these three samples.
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF CORE SAMPLES FROM KAMO’OMAIKA’I FISH POND, HALELE’A DISTRICT, KAUA’I, HAWAII (2011)
Seven pollen samples collected from four separate cores at the Kamo’omaika’i fish pond in the Hanalei Ahupua’a of the Halele’a district in Kaua’i were examined (Table 1). The historic use of the area as a fishpond and also for rice agriculture is documented in the historic record. The use of this area prior to 1816, when it was described as a fish pond, is explored through this pollen analysis.
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM KAWAI NUI MARSH, SIHP #50-50-11-2029, OAHU, HAWAI’I (2011)
Kawai Nui marsh is located on the northeast coast of Oahu. This site is described as having been used traditionally for taro cultivation. Two cores were taken from the marsh, and individual pollen samples were extracted from the cores and submitted for analysis.
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITES T-22 AND T-117, MILITARY LEASEBACK AREA, TINIAN (2001)
Nine pollen samples were collected from the Military Leaseback Area on Tinian in conjunction with a Cultural Resources Survey. Eight samples represent stratigraphic sediments from Test Unit 2 of archaeological site TN-4-1122 (T-22), located in survey Area 6. The ninth sample was collected during excavation of Test Unit 2 of site TN-1-1189 (T-117), Feature 2, located in Survey Area 7. Pollen analysis was conducted to establish a pattern of vegetation through the depth of sediments represented.
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE HONOLULU HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSIT CORRIDOR PROJECT, HONOLULU, HAWAI’I (2012)
Pollen analyses collected from sediments exposed in trenches for the Kalihi 22 project were conducted in an effort to define the past environment and identify evidence of agriculture. The project is located in the greater Waikiki area on the south shore of Oahu. Samples from trenches in the city center and airport sections have been examined to date.
POLLEN ANALYSIS ON SAMPLES FROM KAHALUU AHUPUA’A, HAWAI’I (2015)
Recent archaeological work at Kahaluu Ahupua’a, located on the western coast of Hawai’i Island, recovered sediment samples from Po’o Pond. Two samples, one from the southern portion and one from the central portion, collected from one meter below the water table, were submitted for pollen analysis to determine use of the area (Trevor Yucha, personal communication June 29, 2015). Previous pollen analysis for this site examined three sediment samples from open air water wells (Scott Cummings...
POLLEN AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SOIL SAMPLES FROM THE POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA, HAWAI’I (2011)
Twenty-one sediment samples from seven culturally modified pits excavated into lava flows in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai’i were submitted for pollen and organic residue analysis. Six additional sediment samples from a Hawai’ian Petrel nesting area on Mauna Loa, located in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, were submitted as FTIR control samples representing modern avian activity. These samples were made available specifically to answer the need for identifying the possibility that the...
POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITES CSH 53 AND CSH 62, MAUI, HAWAI’I (2010)
Fill samples from a possible agricultural mound at site CSH 53 and a basalt mound at site CSH 62, Maui, Hawaii, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. These analyses were undertaken to identify what plants were grown at the agricultural mound and identify a function for the basalt mound.
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, AND RESISTIVITY ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM WAIKIKI 88, AIS AMC EWA EXPANSION, OAHU (2012)
Samples collected as part of the Waikiki 88 AIS AMC Ewa Expansion project in Honolulu. Six samples were examined using resistivity to determine whether or not they represented salt pans. Five samples were examined for pollen and one was examined for phytoliths to identify local vegetation and use of the areas tested.
Populations expansion as a replacement or merging of peoples: insights from the rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave), Northern Territory Australia (2017)
The rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave) in the Northern Territory of Australia provided a valuable lesson in the difficulties of interpretation without local knowledge. Now, newly recorded motifs at the site—some only visible through digital enhancement—highlight the dangers of relating stylistic changes to population replacement. When considered in the context of local history, developments in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk during the second half of the twentieth century can be...
Possible Prehistoric Translocation of Non-human Primates to Remote Oceania (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New archaeological excavation at the Ucheliungs site, located in the Rock Islands region of Palau (northwest tropical Pacific), has yielded evidence of mortuary activity and small-scale marine foraging dating to the earliest period of human settlement in the Palauan archipelago, ca. 3000 BP. The assemblage includes a small number of artifacts consisting of...
Potentials and Pitfalls for ZooMS Analysis in the Pacific: A Case Study from Ofu Island (Manu‘a Group, American Samoa) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeological analysis in the Pacific is often limited by the large proportion of small, highly fragmented, non-diagnostic remains recovered from archaeological sites. Recent advances in biomolecular methods, including collagen peptide mass fingerprinting (a.k.a. ZooMS) enable increased taxonomic identifications and refine...
Pre-construction Archaeological Resource Survey for the New Civil Engineering Building, Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, Koolaupoko, Oahu, Hawai'i (2009)
A pre-construction archaeological resource survey was conducted by T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc., at the proposed Iodation of the new Civil Engineering Building at Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, O'ahu. The survey consisted of the excavation of four backhoe trenches, recording of stratigraphy, identification of traditional Hawaiian features, and collection of samples. Excavations revealed a disturbed paleosol throughout the project area, two traditional Hawaiian fire-pit...
Pre-Construction Archaeological Survey for New Recreational Lodging at Bellows Air Force Station (2009)
A pre-construction archaeological resources survey was conducted by T S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. at the proposed location of the New Recreational Lodging project at Bellows Air Force Station, Waimānalo, O'ahu. The survey was carried out in two phases. During the first phase, nine backhoe trenches excavated in the proposed leach field revealed two buried cultural layers containing numerous small pit features, seven of which were dated to the traditional Hawaiian period. The 7...
Pre-Contact Hawaiian Animal Burials: Interspecies Interactions and Embodied Experiences (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeological analyses of pre-contact Hawaiian midden deposits have yielded significant information on subsistence practices and, to a lesser extent, associated foodways practices. Archaeologists have also occasionally excavated burials of non-human domesticated animals, including dog, pig, and chicken. These ritual deposits provide unparalleled...
Preliminary Chemical Fossil Assessment of Mid to Late Holocene Environment and Human-Forest Dynamics on the North Coast of New Guinea (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological interest in environmental and human impacts on society and ecosystems has intensified, with mounting evidence of global anthropogenic climate change and landscape modification. Tropical lowland forests, once believed to represent pristine ecologies only marginally impacted by human activity, are now understood to reflect millennia of human...
Preliminary Investigations at Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia (2017)
The Society Islands are of primary importance for understanding human impacts on island ecologies and the dispersal of pre-contact voyaging populations in East Polynesia. Raiatea, the largest island of the Leeward Group, is recognized through Polynesian oral traditions as a locus of regional interaction and a departure point for migrations that colonized the distant islands of Hawaii and Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the second millennium AD. Here we present results from our first season of...
Preliminary Investigations of Missing American Service Members in Papua New Guinea (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Queensland (UQ) has partnered with DPAA to bring renewed focus to a search in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, that has been continuing intermittently since an aircraft went missing in 1943. The operation is challenging because we have only a general idea of where the plane went down...
Preliminary Report Upon Completion of Field Work, Archaeological Reconnaissance and Subsurface Testing of Proposed Projects HIC 84-1269 Recreation Library and HIC 86-3221, Recreation Library Utilities Support Project Sites at Bellows Air Force Station, Hawaii (1985)
Results of archaeological reconnaissance survey and test excavations in support of the proposed projects HIC 84-1269 Recreation Library and HIC 86-3221 Recreation Library Utilities Support. No evidence of cultural material was discovered.
Preliminary Report: Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey for Proposed OMNI Antenna, Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaii (1986)
Archaeological field investigations were initiated on October 24, 1986 and completed on November 3, 1986 for a total of 5 field days. The proposed OMNI antenna site is to be situated within the abandoned runway area of Bellows Air Force Station. A number of other antennae are presently located throughout the runway area. In order to locate the boundaries of the antenna pad and cable trench alignment, it was necessary to compute bearings from the engineering map and then shoot these in with a...
Preliminary Results of Petrographic and Chemical Analyses of Lapita Pottery Assemblage Excavated from Kurin Site, Mare Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we will illustrate the number of possible pottery-making locations that we have identified so far from the Lapita pottery assemblage excavated at Kurin site, Mare Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. We first examined the non-plastic inclusions to determine whether minerals and rock fragments identified through a petrographic microscope may...
A Preliminary Study on Food and the Emergence of Archaic States in the Hawaiian Islands (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists approach the topic of ancient foodways in two major ways: by focusing on ‘diet’ and adaptation to local environments, or more recently, by focusing on ‘cuisine,’ through culturally specific rules about how food is acquired, prepared, consumed, and discarded. Few, however, have attempted to consider how changes in diet and cuisine have...
Primitive pottery for the contemporary Neanderthal, a Pacific Nortwest perspective, part I - the nature of primitive pottery and the quest for clay (2003)
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