Report on the Human Skeletal Material Recovered from Nan Madol

Summary

The human skeletal material recovered from the Nan Medal islets in Ponape, Federated States of Micronesia, was excavated during the spring of 1984 by Drs. J. Stephen Athens and Joyce Bath. A forensic examination of this material was undertaken at the University of Hawaii-Manoa during the 1984-85 academic year. The bone collections come from eight different sites among the islets; some are from excavated test units, others are bone caches found in the crevices between the stones of several walls in the vicinity of Nandauwas Islet. Much of the material is badly weathered and fragmentary. Preservation of bone was found to be poor.

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• National Archeological Database (NADB)

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Sponsor(s): Federated States of Micronesia

Prepared By(s): Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii-Manoa

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 1699878

NADB citation id number(s): 000000245320

Notes

General Note: Sent from: Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii-Manoa

General Note: Submitted to: Federated States of Micronesia

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