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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

Title
Afetna Point, Saipan : archaeological investigations of a Latte Period village and historic context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands / Boyd Dixon, Cherie Walth, Kathy Mowrer, Danny Welch ; with contributions by Isla Nelson and Robert Jones.
Author
Dixon, Boyd
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • Walth, Cherie
  • Mowrer, Kathy
  • Welch, Danny
  • Nelson, Isla
  • Jones, Robert
Description
xii, 186 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
Uniform Title
Access archaeology.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186).
Call Number
JFF 19-2612
ISBN
  • 9781789691764
  • 1789691761
LCCN
2018493522
OCLC
1091686245
Author
Dixon, Boyd, author.
Title
Afetna Point, Saipan : archaeological investigations of a Latte Period village and historic context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands / Boyd Dixon, Cherie Walth, Kathy Mowrer, Danny Welch ; with contributions by Isla Nelson and Robert Jones.
Publisher
Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
Access archaeology.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186).
Added Author
Walth, Cherie, author.
Mowrer, Kathy, author.
Welch, Danny, author.
Nelson, Isla, contributor.
Jones, Robert, contributor.
Research Call Number
JFF 19-2612
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