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Afetna Point, Saipan : archaeological investigations of a Latte Period village and historic context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
When Ferdinand Magellan first anchored off the island of Guam in 1521, the inhabitants of the small Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan were likely unaware. Archaeological investigations of the traditional village yielded Latte Period burials, ceramics, stone and shell tools, microfossils from food remains, and charcoal from cooking features dating between A.D. 1450 and 1700. No direct evidence of Spanish Contact before forced abandonment of the island circa 1730 was encountered, after which time Saipan remained virtually unpopulated until the arrival of Carolinian and Chamorro settlers from Guam nearly a century later. Spanish settlement in 1668, the German occupation from 1898-1914, and the Japanese sugarcane period from 1914-1944 left few traces at the site until WWII and subsequent American administration. Afetna Point and Saipan have therefore been a contested landscape for centuries, but the island's prehistory has deep roots that tie the Mariana Islands and its modern culture to ancestral SE Asia.
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Afetna Point, Saipan
Archaeological investigations at the Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan yielded Latte Period burials, ceramics, stone and shell tools, microfossils from food remains, and charcoal from cooking features dating between A.D. 1450 and 1700.
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Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years
On June 15, 1944, Afetna Point was called 'Yellow Beach 2' by the U.S. Marines and Army infantry braving Japanese resistance to establish a beachhead before capturing As Lito airfield in the following days. After 75 years, this book presents archaeological evidence, archival records, and respected elders' accounts from WWII.
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Okinawa as Transported Landscape: Understanding Japanese Archaeological Remains on Tinian Using Ryūkyū Ethnohistory and Ethnography
The two islands of Okinawa and Tinian in the western Pacific are often linked in the modern archaeological literature by a common ethnic heritage in the early twentieth century, with Okinawan culture serving as a template for interpreting the archaeological remains of the Japanese sugarcane plantation era in Tinian. Tens of thousands of Okinawans immigrated to Tinian and other Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to be tenant farmers or contract laborers on the plantations between the 1920s and 1944, when they could no longer leave. Structural and functional parallels do indeed exist between the architectural remains of many farmsteads of the plantation era on both islands. The extent to which these archaeological remains on Tinian reflect a \"transported landscape\" from Okinawa versus a Japanese colonial construct is explored, using the vehicle of Okinawan ethnohistory and ethnography.
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Archaeological Examination of Japanese Photographs and Archival Data from the Pre-WWII Okinawan Diaspora
This study looks at archival records and photographs from the pre-WWII Japanese occupation of the Micronesian island of Tinian to discuss the archaeological remnants of the Okinawan diaspora from the 1920s to 1940s in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) today.
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Traditional Land Use and Resistance to Spanish Colonial Entanglement: Archaeological Evidence on Guam
Documenting the continuity of traditional land use practices on Guam, from before Spanish Contact in 1521 to after the Colonial La Reduccion ca. 1700, is provocative. La Reduccion refers to a period after Spanish settlement in 1668 when all indigenous inhabitants of northern Guam were removed from their traditional homes and sent to six southern villages under the watchful eye of administrative and religious authorities, except those residing on the island of Rota. Recent geoarchaeological excavations at Site 66-08-0141, located on the northern plateau in South Finegayan, have exposed at least two latte sets or pre-Contact habitations with traditional Micronesian earth ovens post-dating Spanish settlement. Artifacts included Latte Period pottery, marine shell adzes, a limestone sling stone, and historic to modern refuse from WWII to the modern era. Microfossil evidence of pandanus, coconuts, and likely cultivation of rice and taro have expanded our understanding of subsistence farming in micro-environments within the tropical forest a generation or more after 1700 and La Reduccion. This suggests that archaeological evidence of land use continuity and indigenous resistance and accommodation to Spanish Colonial entanglement exists, while challenging prior historiography across the Pacific; such sites hold much potential to bring native voices to early communities long disenfranchised by the colonization experience. KEYWORDS: entanglement, Guam, Spanish Contact, latte.
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TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN MEN'S HOUSES AND THEIR SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT IN LUALUALEI, LEEWARD WEST O'AHU, HAWAI'I
Recent archaeological survey and subsurface testing in the traditional district of Lualualei, located on the leeward side of the western portion of O'ahu in the Hawaiian archipelago, has revealed several distinct clusters of pre-contact native Hawaiian sites situated at the base of the Wai'anae mountain chain. Each of these clusters contained at least one large residential complex or kauhale, usually consisting of a walled habitation compound interpreted as a possible men’s house or hale mua generally within view of a small temple or heiau. Such complexes have been interpreted as residences of konohiki or local managers of the surrounding farmlands or 'ili 'aina. This paper explores the changing role of the Hawaiian hale mua or traditional men’s house, first comparing ethnographic data from the Pacific with the ethnohistoric record in Hawai'iand then presenting archaeological data recently gathered from Lualualei to explore the role hale mua played in unifying one local community and its regional society over time.
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Pagan: the archaeology of a WWII battle never fought in the Northern Mariana Islands
Archaeological and historical investigation of WWII battles fought in the Micronesian archipelago of the Mariana Islands has generally concentrated on the fierce struggles for Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Smaller islands that were neutralised during the U.S. thrust to establish air bases for the bombing campaign over Japan beginning in 1944 have received less attention, but were a strategic link in the Absolute National Defence Sphere. This paper examines the archaeological evidence of Japanese military planning for the defence of the island of Pagan situated north of Saipan, a battle that was never fought. The strategy based on an analysis of fixed weaponry emplacement appears to have been conceived in terms of engagement evolving from a 'defence-at-the-waters-edge' tactic in the southern Mariana Islands towards a 'defence-in-depth' posture faced in Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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Traditional places in conflict and their historic context
The term ‘traditional places in conflict’ in the title does not imply that pre-Contact Period village sites such as Ritidian on the island of Guam in the Mariana Islands of Micronesia (Figure 5.1) were deliberately constructed to be settings of defence or animosity. Rather, non-indigenous participant observers recorded traditional conflict before the late seventeenth century in contested spaces between indigenous Chamorro village sites, and often quite literally ‘on the beach’ (Flexner 2014:49). Some traditional villages on Guam may then have assumed a role in conflict when Spanish, American and Japanese forces imposed their will upon the resident population.
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