Nearly Two Millennia of Occupation along Ylig Bay, Guam: Archaeological, Osteological, and Paleoenvironmental Data

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This is an abstract from the "Research and CRM Are Not Mutually Exclusive: J. Stephen Athens—Forty Years and Counting" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Through CRM compliance-mandated investigations nearly two millennia of occupation at Ylig Bay, Guam, has been documented. Stratified archaeological deposits at three locales along the northern portion of the embayment reveal late Pre-Latte occupation and a possible decades- to centuries-long hiatus before later Latte Period settlement. Both occupations are represented by burial assemblages. These data are complemented by paleoenvironmental information obtained by Steve Athens and Jerome Ward through sediment coring at the Ylig River mouth. Taken together, the results of these investigations provide insights into land use along a dynamic coastline during much of the island’s human history.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Research and CRM Are Not Mutually Exclusive: J. Stephen Athens—Forty Years and Counting   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24755