Geological subsidence and sinking Islands: the case of Manono (Samoa)
Author(s): Jacques Bolé; Christophe Sand; André-John Ouetcho; David Baret; Tautala Asaua
Year: 2015
Summary
W. Dickinson, as part of his wide study of the geological history of Pacific islands, has proposed in a series of papers to explain the unique case of the deeply submerged Lapita site of Mulifanua in Western Upolu (Samoa), as linked to the slow subsidence of Upolu Island. Recent archaeological research on the neighboring small island of Manono, has brought new and detailed data on this geological process. A series of dates allow to define chronologically the speed of the subsidence as well as the massive environmental changes that the local population had to adapt to over the past 2500 years.
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Geological subsidence and sinking Islands: the case of Manono (Samoa). Christophe Sand, Jacques Bolé, David Baret, André-John Ouetcho, Tautala Asaua. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395139)
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Keywords
General
Island Subsidence
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Resilience
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Samoa
Geographic Keywords
Oceania
Spatial Coverage
min long: 111.973; min lat: -52.052 ; max long: -87.715; max lat: 53.331 ;