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This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The CHamoru people of Guam have a long maritime tradition of utilizing the ocean and in particular the local reef systems to support their spiritual and physical health. During World War II, Guam was a strategic location for both sides of the war. When the Japanese seized the island in December 1941, they fortified the...
Expedition Asia: Investigations of a 19th Century Wooden Shipwreck in Apra Harbor, Guam (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, divers performed an initial assessment of a wooden-hulled shipwreck located during remote sensing operations in Apra Harbor, Guam. Historical research into the area suggested the site might represent the remains of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Identified as a potentially significant historic site,...
Marine Imaging Technologies and DPAA: Keeping America’s Promise Through a Public and Private Partnership (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Starting in 2022, DPAA has partnered with Marine Imaging Technologies, to conduct phase I and II projects in Guam, Chuuk, and Philippines, looking for and documenting various WWII aircraft. Some of these sites present logistical challenges, such as high seas, fast currents, and...
Mortuary Practices of the Pre-Latte and Latte People of Guam Based on Data from the Naton Beach Site (2015)
The large sample of Pre-Latte and Latte period burials from the Naton Beach Site on Guam offers an opportunity to examine the differences and similarities in the mortuary practices. This poster examines several research questions: What is the pattern of burials in terms of location within the site? Do the patterns relate to potential residence areas? What is the pattern of internment in terms of orientation, position, placement, age, gender, and grave goods? A cluster analysis was completed by...
Regional Cold War History for Department of Defense Installations in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (Legacy 09-454)
This regional history of Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) presents a framework for determining NRHP eligibility within a definitive context. The history represents a means to more evenly and expediently evaluate resources from the U.S. military response during the Cold War period of significance.
Regional Cold War History for Department of Defense Installations in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands - Report (Legacy 09-454) (2011)
This regional history of Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) presents a framework for determining NRHP eligibility within a definitive context. The history represents a means to more evenly and expediently evaluate resources from the U.S. military response during the Cold War period of significance.
Trying Out a Name: Using Whaling-related Artifacts to Ascertain a Ship’s Identity (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A team of archaeologists and marine scientists with Ships of Discovery investigated the remains of a wooden shipwreck off the island of Guam. Identified through a remote sensing survey, preliminary research suggested the site to be the wreck of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Recent investigations at the site...
Who sewed those buttons? Materials and Technologies in the Making of the Global Self. An Example from Guåham in Månislan Marianas (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, I build off of archaeological buttons uncovered at the San Dionisio cemetery (Guåhan, Månislan Marianas) by the Aberigua project. Aberigua investigates the different strategies that 17th-century Jesuit missions implemented in the colonization of the Indigenous CHamoru being....