Oceania (Continent) (Geographic Keyword)
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This study seeks to understand the means of dissemination of oral cultural traditions of Oceania across time and geographic space. I hypothesize evolutionary trees produced from analysis of creation myths provide a means to infer prehistoric migrations routes. Additionally, creation myths and language have parallel evolutionary history and form a combined set of core cultural traditions. In order to test these hypotheses, creation myths, selected from the earliest recorded versions from Oceania,...
Mapping Island 'Moka': Assessing the Spatial Patterns of Customary Fishing Weirs in the Fiji Island Group (2017)
Customary Fijian fishing weirs, known locally as 'moka', are an archaeological feature type that can be readily identified due to their large size, uniform shape, and conspicuous location on the tidal flats and shorelines of both high and low islands. Recent advances in remote sensing technology have allowed for an improved survey of Fijian fishing weirs adding to the existing inventory and informing upon early settlement patterns in the Fiji Island group. While 'moka' do not play a major part...
Marine Toxins From the Pacific II: The Contamination of Wake Island Lagoon (1969)
A study and historical account of the contamination at Wake Island Lagoon on June 20, 1965.
Material Culture of Western Samoa: Persistence and Change (1985)
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Maui Space Surveillance Complex, External Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP) (1997)
This Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ECAMP) Report presents the results of the environmental compliance assessment that was conducted at Maui Space Surveillance Complex (SSC) from 9-13 December 1996. This assessment was initiated and led by Headquarters Air Force Space Command (HQ AFSPC) and was conducted in accordance with the ECAMP process as defined by Air Force Instruction (AFI) 32-7045. ECAMP was established by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to help commanders assess...
Measuring Human Impacts on Islands Relative to Size (2017)
Archaeological research on islands worldwide demonstrates that initial colonists exerted substantial environmental impacts on local ecologies, ranging from the extirpation of native species to landscape modification. The degree of impact was dependent on a host of variables, including the kinds and number of introduced plant and animal species, the remoteness of settled islands, and extent of interaction between discrete landmasses. Yet, there is still much to learn about the consequences of...
Memo: Human Skeletal Remains (2002)
Memo regarding the alleged destruction of human burial remains and archaeological sites at Bellows AFS.
Memorandum of Agreement Among the Commander, 15th Air Base Wing, Commanding General, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (1998)
MOA on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Land Use and Development Plan (LUDP) for Bellows Air Force Station.
Memorandum of Agreement: Cellular Mobile Radio Facilities, Bellows Air Force Station, Oahu, Hawaii (2021)
GTE Mobilnet of Hawaii Incorporated (Mobilnet), a second tier subsidiary of GTE Corporation, is establishing a new form of communication on the Island of Oahu. This new system is known as cellular mobile radio telecommunication. The proposed project will integrate twelve cell sites and a switch which together will create a mobile communication network. The sites were selected to ensure coverage of the more densely populated portions of Oahu. One site is at the Bellows Air Force Station and is...
Methoden der Feldbewässerung in Ozeanien (1951)
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...
Methoden des Feldbaus in Ozeanien (1957)
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...
Methodological Considerations for Modeling the Temporal Characteristics of Hawaiian Architecture: An Example from Kekaha Kai, North Kona (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Supporting Practical Inquiry: The Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Thomas Dye" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation we build on Tom Dye’s pioneering approach to modeling the temporal parameters of Hawaiian architecture with an example from Kekaha Kai, North Kona, where he conducted archaeological investigations nearly two decades ago. We report a suite of uranium-thorium dates acquired from...
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of World War II Aircraft Wrecks in the Pacific (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aircraft were a major component of the U.S. war effort in World War II, and today numerous examples can be found throughout the waters of the Asia-Pacific region. Due to their cultural and historical significance to modern stakeholders, understanding the decay trajectories has become an important issue in the realm of cultural heritage management, especially...
Microfossil analysis of sediments from a Qaraqara terrace site, Viti Levu, Fiji (2017)
Microfossils in archaeology are defined as the floral and faunal-derived microscopic biogenic particles that preserve long after the original organism has died and decayed. Some such examples are silica phytoliths, starches, pollens and spores, calcium oxalates, and plant cellular tissue like trichomes and stomata. This type of analysis is a valuable proxy for inferring prehistoric environmental conditions and landscape change over time, as well as direct evidence for the presence of certain...
Miscellaneous Photos, Maui Space Surveillance Complex (1999)
Miscellaneous photos of the Maui Space Surveillance Complex taken from a printout of the Maui High Performance Computing Center website.
Modeling the Early Settlement of Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2018)
In recent decades, increased research on the early human settlement of islands in western Micronesia (northwest tropical Pacific) has resulted in a relatively clear picture of the Palau and the Mariana Islands being settled between ca. 3200-2800 years cal BP. Despite an increased understanding of when the two major archipelagos were settled, human arrival in Yap, a group of four small islands situated between the two other islands groups, remains unclear. New radiocarbon dates from the southern...
Mokapu: A Paradise on the Peninsula - Pamphlet (2014)
This booklet recounts the stories of this community, of the people who worked, lived, and played at Mokapu Peninsula before it was transformed into the military landscape of today.
Molecular taphonomy of biominerals in the Western Pacific (2017)
Molecular and microarchaeological artifacts of human subsistence are recorded in the bones, tissues and residues of the skeleton. These artifacts provide substantial correlative evidence for macroscopic and sedimentary data of dietary plant and animal use in the archaeological record. Within the depositional context however, many factors in the local environment disturb or degrade these signatures, reducing or eliminating their usefulness in diet reconstruction. The islands of the tropical...
Mollusk Analysis, Site 50-80-15-3300, University of Hawaii Archaeological Field School Summer, 1989 (1989)
During the summer of 1989, the University of Hawai'i Archaeological Field School team excavated Hawaii register Site 50-80- 15-3300 at Bellows Air Force Station on Waimanalo Bay, windward Oahu. The goals of this report are to analyze the mollusks collected from the areal excavation carried out at the site, first, in terms of total weights and concentrations and second, for possible interpretations and insights into the subsistence habits of the early occupants of the site.
Mollusk Foraging and Gendered Labor in Seventeenth-Century Guam, Mariana Islands (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Coastal Environments in Archaeology: Ancient Life, Lore, and Landscapes" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological investigation of gendered labor in traditional households in the Mariana Islands is still in a nascent stage of development. Archaeological field school excavations by the University of Guam Micronesian Area Research Center and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa yielded a rich assemblage of...
Monitoring Report for the Underground Storage Tank Removal and Replacement at Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, Koolaupoko, Oahu, Hawaii (TMK 4:1:15) (1997)
At the request of M&E Pacific Inc., Cultural Surveys Hawaii Inc. conducted archaeological monitoring of the replacement of two underground fuel storage tanks and associated fuel lines with new above ground fuel storage tanks at Bellows Air Force Station, ahupua'a of Waimanalo, District of Koolaupoko, Oahu, Hawaii (TMK 4:1:15). Although the tanks were situated in previously disturbed fill their removal required excavation extending into previously undisturbed deposits. Due to the project areas...
Monumental Architecture and Power in Polynesian Chiefdoms: a Comparison of Tonga and Hawai`i (1990)
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Monuments, boundaries, and chiefly competition in the development of the Tongan state (2017)
The principal Tongan island of Tongatapu was the epicentre of a hierarchical and geographically integrated society which some archaeologists contend reached the level of archaic state by AD 1300–1400. Dynastic chiefs affirmed their power and rights to land through monumental construction and a dispersed settlement pattern that fully occupied their inherited territories with lower-ranking members of their kin-based corporate groups. Recent archaeological survey, aided by LiDAR, reveals the...
Moving within the ‘A‘ā: The Influence of Liminality in the Hinterlands of Manukā, Ka‘ū, Hawai‘i Island (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Hinterlands in Polynesia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Situated at the transition between windward and leeward sides of the island of Hawai‘i, Manukā is a tapestry of environmental and sociopolitical gradients perpetually reconfigured by the lava flows from Mauna Loa. As a geographically liminal region, place-names describe it as where "the trade winds of Ka‘ū give way to the gentle breezes of Kona." The...
A Multi-proxy Investigation of Settlement on Pingelap Atoll, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pacific atolls are generally regarded as challenging places to live. In addition to being far from other land masses, most have low biodiversity, limited access to freshwater, and are susceptible to extreme weather. However, settlers established residence on atolls in the Micronesian region as early as 2,000 years ago. This paper presents the first major...