Holocene Paleoshoreline and Paleoenvironmental History of Palau: Implications for Human Settlement

Dickinson, William R.; Athens, J. Stephen

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“…Reef transformation due specifically to sea-level fall, however, is inconsistent with the local geologic record. The Rock Islands have been undergoing subsidence and relative sea-level rise since the mid-Holocene highstand (Dickinson and Athens, 2007). Loss of habitat through reef and sand flat drowning would seem to be a greater concern, and at least for the Rock Islands, would be expected to adversely impact S. gibberulus populations.…”

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Evidence for size increase in an exploited mollusc: humped conch (Strombus gibberulus) at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau from ca. 3000–0 BP

Giovas¹,

Fitzpatrick²,

Clark³

et al. 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Environmental Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Evidence for size increase in an exploited mollusc: humped conch (Strombus gibberulus) at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau from ca. 3000–0 BP

Giovas¹,

Fitzpatrick²,

Clark³

et al. 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…centuries in the first millennium BC, and perhaps it was not complete until the first few centuries AD (Dickinson 2000(Dickinson , 2003Dickinson and Athens 2007; see also Grossman et al 1998). …”

Section: And Patellidae In Tu-2 Layers I-a (Youngest) Through Iv-a (mentioning

confidence: 96%

Refining Earliest Settlement in Remote Oceania: Renewed Archaeological Investigation at Unai Bapot, Saipan

Carson

2008

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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Renewed archaeological investigation at Unai Bapot inSaipan refines the documentation of chronological change during the earliest period of human occupation of the Mariana Islands. First site use was in the range of 1600 to 1420 BC, and site abandonment occurred shortly after AD 1670. In more than 2 m of continuous stratigraphy, abundant examples of pottery occur in stratigraphic order in seven distinct occupation layers with minor internal variations. Other artifacts include shell and coral pendants, polished chert and shell adzes, various types of flaked stones and shells, fishhooks, and other objects. Faunal materials are almost entirely shellfish remains, and changes in shellfish taxa reflect a drop in sea level and associated habitat transformation in the first millennium BC. The new data support a refined substantive evaluation of the role of early Marianas settlement as the first human colonization in Remote Oceania.

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“…Kirch and Hunt (1993:234-236) extend their model to suggest application not only elsewhere within American Samoa, but also in the search for early sites in the southern Cooks, the Australs and the Society Islands. Variants of the model have also been shown to have value for Mangaia in the Cooks (Kirch 1997b), Niuatoputapu in Tonga (Kirch 1988b) and more recently Palau (Wickler 2001b) -but see Dickinson and Athens (2007) for a useful corrective concerning the influence of subsidence for that last island group, perhaps also applicable to other cases.…”

Section: Propositon 2: Difficulty Of Finding Early Sitesmentioning

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Holocene Paleoshoreline and Paleoenvironmental History of Palau: Implications for Human Settlement

Cited by 24 publications

References 43 publications

Evidence for size increase in an exploited mollusc: humped conch (Strombus gibberulus) at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau from ca. 3000–0 BP

Evidence for size increase in an exploited mollusc: humped conch (Strombus gibberulus) at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau from ca. 3000–0 BP

Refining Earliest Settlement in Remote Oceania: Renewed Archaeological Investigation at Unai Bapot, Saipan

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

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