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On the Margins of Sustainability: Prehistoric settlement of Utrōk Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands
Marshall I. Weisler
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The 34 islands that comprise the Marshall group lie in the Pacific Ocean some half way between Hawaii and New Guinea. This study, incorporating landscape, habitation sites, chronologies, and material culture, is a detailed archaeological survey of Utrôk Atoll (in the Northern Marshall Islands) by the former Chief Archaeologist for the Historic Preservation Office, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Low coral atolls are the most precarious of Pacific island landscapes. Utrôk Atoll was colonized and settled for nearly 2000 years, and that resource depression and extinctions were not more visible archaeologically may signal that human populations lived in a sustainable manner. Future investigations may reveal different patterns of resource use, and it is with this comparative approach that we may come to understand the breadth of atoll adaptations – technological, economic, and social.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Names for Marshall Islands Atolls and Islands
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Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
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Chapter 2. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
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Chapter 3. EXCAVATION OF HABITATION SITES
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Chapter 4. EXCAVATIONS IN THE HORTICULTURAL SYSTEMS
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Chapter 5. CHRONOLOGY OF THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
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Chapter 6. MATERIAL CULTURE
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Chapter 7. ATOLL SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS
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Chapter 8. SYNTHESIS
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REFERENCES
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APPENDICES
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Published: 2001
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841712543 (paperback)
- 9781407353173 (ebook)
BAR Number: S967
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Landscape Archaeology
- Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- Prehistory (general titles only)
- Hunter-Gatherers / Hunting
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)