TY - JOUR
T1 - Inhabiting Remote Tropical Seashores at 1500-1100 b.c.: Water, Practicalities, and Rituals in the Mariana Islands
AU - Carson, Michael
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - When people first inhabited the Remote Oceanic region of the world at 1500 b.c., they generated archaeological sites attesting to their practical coastal adaptations in tandem with their ceremonial traditions, wherein water figured vitally in daily living and ritual performance. Of eight known first-settlement sites in the Mariana Islands, Ritidian in Guam uniquely incorporates one residential habitation plus two caves related to water collection, pictographs, consumption of unusual foods, and use of exceptionally decorative objects. The inter-connected findings clarify what was "special" about the special-use caves, in total articulating a fuller sense of cultural life and landscape than otherwise could be possible.
AB - When people first inhabited the Remote Oceanic region of the world at 1500 b.c., they generated archaeological sites attesting to their practical coastal adaptations in tandem with their ceremonial traditions, wherein water figured vitally in daily living and ritual performance. Of eight known first-settlement sites in the Mariana Islands, Ritidian in Guam uniquely incorporates one residential habitation plus two caves related to water collection, pictographs, consumption of unusual foods, and use of exceptionally decorative objects. The inter-connected findings clarify what was "special" about the special-use caves, in total articulating a fuller sense of cultural life and landscape than otherwise could be possible.
U2 - 10.1080/00934690.2017.1326800
DO - 10.1080/00934690.2017.1326800
M3 - Article
SN - 0093-4690
VL - 42
SP - 269
EP - 282
JO - Journal of Field Archaeology
JF - Journal of Field Archaeology
IS - 4
ER -