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{"title":"Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia","authors":"Michelle C. Langley, S. O’Connor, S. Kealy, Mahirta","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1868631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1868631","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While fishhook technology is currently known to date back to ca. 22,000 cal. BP, almost all Pleistocene-aged assemblages consist of less than 10 artifacts, restricting the ability of archaeologists to reconstruct the technology. Excavations at Makpan Cave on Alor Island (Indonesia), however, has recovered an extensive assemblage of marine shell material culture, including an unprecedented number of fishhook artifacts. Here we describe 214 jabbing and rotating fishhooks made from marine gastropods, along with several possible lures, coral tools associated with their construction, and coral sinkers. Recovery of debitage as well as fishhooks in all stages of manufacture, from blanks through to fully finished examples, allow for a complete chaîne opératoire to be constructed for both main forms (jabbing and rotating) of shell fishhooks. The assemblage indicates a wide-ranging approach to marine resource extraction at Makpan over the past 15,000 years with fishhooks ranging between around 1 cm to over 5 cm long all occurring during the same period.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133840337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Special Character of Northwest Coast Wet Sites: Review of “Waterlogged”","authors":"Paul A. Ewonus","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1900462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1900462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126440400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human settlement and landscape dynamics on the coastline south of the Gironde estuary (SW France): A multi-proxy approach","authors":"Elias Lopez-Romero, Florence Verdin, F. Eynaud, Camille Culioli, Alizé Hoffmann, J. Huchet, Jérémy Rollin, P. Stéphan","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1880505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1880505","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Gironde estuary in SW France is the largest in Western Europe and has attracted human populations since prehistoric times. From the 1970s to the 1990s, intense archaeological research was undertaken on the long and highly dynamic coastline just south of the estuary mouth. In recent years, the combined action of increased coastal erosion and human pressure has proved a serious threat to the integrity of archaeological sites in the area. As a consequence, a whole array of previously unrecorded archaeological remains across the intertidal zone and coastal strip is being exposed. In this context, innovative interdisciplinary research since 2014 is yielding new information about the settlement and landscape dynamics and about the long-term interaction between human societies and the environment. The sedimentary context and the exceptional preservation conditions of organic remains have made possible a multi-proxy approach combining archaeological, geomorphological, palaeobiological, and archaeoentomological methods. In this paper we discuss the different approaches and the way they jointly contribute to the project. The results obtained so far from this multi-proxy approach challenge the traditional view of the historic occupation and the landscape dynamics around the Gironde estuary from prehistoric times to antiquity. They show that the intense occupation of this area during certain periods of human history is related to the development of marshy environments, which can now be analyzed at higher temporal resolution owing to this approach.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131302132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New information from an old discovery: Geological analysis of a stone adze found on Pohnpei, Micronesia","authors":"T. Nagaoka, P. Sheppard","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1862369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1862369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Geological analysis was conducted on a stone adze, which was accidentally dug up from an intertidal dredging site on a reef flat in Pohnpei Island, Micronesia in the 1980s. Detailed geological observations identified the material as metamorphic rock (schist), not basalt as originally reported. This result places its source in the continental rocks of Island Melanesia, most probably New Guinea. The location where it was recovered suggests an age that may well go back to when the island was first settled in the early centuries AD. The eastern Micronesian homeland is often thought to be eastern Melanesia based on linguistic and archaeological evidence. The adze, which may have functioned as a prestige good, was possibly brought from their homeland by early settlers or their immediate successors, or imported from New Guinea by them, suggesting that they still had interaction with the Lapita homeland region even after the decline of Lapita long-distance communications. This is the first artifact found at an early settlement site in Micronesia that is documented to be imported from Melanesia and sheds light on a possible early eastern Micronesian settlers’ interaction system.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116475391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Establishing the efficacy of reed-bundle rafts in the paleolithic colonization of the Ryukyu Islands","authors":"Y. Kaifu, J. Ishikawa, M. Muramatsu, G. Kokubugata, A. Goto","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1872120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1872120","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The earliest colonization of oceanic islands by Homo sapiens occurred about 50,000–30,000 years ago in the tropical and temperate waters of the western Pacific, yet how this was achieved remains unclear. Under the experimental archaeology program called ‘Holistic Reenactment Project of Voyages 30,000 Years Ago’, we designed, built, and tested reed-bundle rafts as one of the candidate seagoing crafts in Paleolithic East Asia. Two rafts made by the best locally available reed, Typha domingensis, showed excellent stability and buoyancy at sea, but lacked mobility, speed, and durability required to cross fast-flowing seas in the Ryukyu Islands, southwest Japan. This supports the hypothesis that the first Ryukyu islanders used more sophisticated watercrafts to reach these islands about 35,000 years ago.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134633582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results","authors":"J. O'Shea","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2021.1879973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1879973","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeology underwater has experienced a renaissance in both popular and professional interest as witnessed in numerous movies, television specials, academic papers, conference symposia, and a spate of recent textbooks. For most archaeologists, as well as in the public imagination, underwater archaeology is the romantic discovery and study of shipwrecks. The best-known underwater discoveries to date have involved lost vessels and many of the techniques used for underwater exploration were designed initially for shipwreck hunting. Yet, there are fundamental differences between the study of shipwrecks and the investigation of ancient archaeological sites on now submerged landscapes. Shipwrecks pose, essentially, a historical problem. Whether we are searching for a known vessel that was lost, or attempting to identify a discovered wreck, the investigation is paradigmatically a historical one. The goal of the exercise is to link the material remains with a documentary record. Except for possibly identifying ancient shipping lanes or wreck traps, the location and character of the sea floor where the wreck is encountered is incidental. If, on the other hand, we want to investigate archaeological sites on a submerged landscape, the problem is entirely different. Now, the sea floor location is critical since it represents the land surface on which the ancient inhabitants lived, and its reconstructed environment provides the primary line of evidence for discovering ancient sites. This type of study is paradigmatically anthropological and requires a different set of approaches, even as many of the underwater survey techniques remain the same. Underwater archaeology, although a relatively new branch of academic research, has mirrored the development of modern archaeology. It experienced its own New Archaeology phase initiated by Keith Muckelroy (1978), a student of David Clarke at Cambridge, who attempted to systematize and theorize the study of maritime archaeology. It has also experienced the bumps and bruises that accompanied the legal and ethical issues inherent to compliance-based archaeology. However, no unified disciplinary or conceptual model for prehistoric underwater research has yet emerged. The archaeological sites preserved on the world’s continental shelves are relevant to a wide range of contemporary research questions, and their importance increases with the heightened awareness of climate change and associated changes in modern sea levels. Certainly, in the Americas, where much interest relating to the early colonization of the","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128680252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behavior and intra-skeletal remodeling in an adult male from 1720 BP Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia","authors":"J. Miszkiewicz, E. Matisoo-Smith, M. Weisler","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1837305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1837305","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bioarchaeological studies of human remains from the Marshall Islands have reported dental, aDNA, and some biological profile data, but no behavioral reconstructions have been conducted. In this case study, histology was examined in a fragmented set of long bone and rib samples to test whether strenuous arm use, linked to traditional Marshallese gardening, food collection, and fishing activities, can be inferred from markers of bone remodeling. Cortical bone samples from the right posterior midshaft femur, left proximal radius, right posterior distal humerus, and an unsided and unnumbered rib shaft were examined in a middle-aged adult male excavated from a village site (MLEb-5) on Ebon Islet, Ebon Atoll. The interment is associated with a 1720 BP date making it the oldest burial in the Marshall Islands. Haversian canal area and density were recorded and compared intra-skeletally. The humerus and radius had denser and smaller canals compared to the femur. This suggests that the upper limb bones in this individual might have experienced frequent, strain suppressed, remodeling events. Bone adaptation to rigorous arm loading is inferred, demonstrating value in histological sampling of fragmented human remains for lifestyle interpretations in the ancient Pacific.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131175587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas","authors":"M. Faught, Morgan F. Smith","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1868632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1868632","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There are significant challenges to answering questions of Native American precontact history with data from sites in marine submerged continental shelf settings. We find seven published examples of projects in the Americas that encountered archaeological sites through systematic and phased geoarchaeological research. These seven projects share similar characteristics: recognition of archaeological potential, mapping and learning paleolandscape configurations, modeling where past human behaviors should be expected and, importantly, testing those places underwater. We summarize the approaches and outcomes of each project, discuss similar characteristics, and recommend additional strategies for future discoveries.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126799143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meat food preferences during the Late Archaic Period at Puerto Marqués, Guerrero, Mexico","authors":"B. Voorhies, Amy E. Gusick, Thomas A. Wake, D. Kennett","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1844824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1844824","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigate animal food preferences of the Ostiones people, the occupants of the coastal site of Puerto Marqués, one of the few Late Archaic Period sites located along the Pacific coast of Mexico (4600 and 2000 cal BCE). Our data are based upon recovered faunal remains at the site, which consist of vertebrate bones and molluskan shells identified to the lowest possible taxon. Habitat information for the animals allows a reconstruction of the Ostiones people's predator-prey relationship to regional animal populations. Estimated meat weight calculations provide information about the relative importance of food sources, at least in terms of animal remains at the site. In general, shellfish meat dominates meat from vertebrates and the principal targeted mollusks are estuarine. Bony fish are the most important contributor to vertebrate meat and they are mainly marine species. We compare these data to the only other known Late Archaic Period coastal assemblages on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico in order to formulate a preliminary model of people's coastal adaptation during this interval.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124806188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea","authors":"Roxanne Tsang, Roxanne Tsang, William Pleiber, Jason Kariwiga, Jason Kariwiga, Sébastien Plutniak, H. Forestier, P. Taçon, F. Ricaut, M. Leavesley, M. Leavesley, M. Leavesley","doi":"10.1080/15564894.2020.1834472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1834472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since 1909, patrol officers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and others have identified evidence of a pre-contact trading network linking New Guinea with the Torres Strait. Current research in the Lower Sepik River Basin reported various ethnographic descriptions relating to cultural material objects stenciled on various rock art sites in Auwim, Upper Karawari-Arafundi region, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to the rock art, the broader area has one of the most environmentally intact freshwater basins with lowland rainforests in Melanesia, and is famous for its architectural carvings and spirit houses. This paper reports new research that articulates local ethnographic knowledge about rock art with the art-work itself. The rock art panels contain a wide range of stencils primarily consisting of hands but also, importantly, several objects, one of which is the kina, gold-lip pearl (Pinctada maxima) shell. The kina shell stencils are, among other things, indicative of the remarkable distance over which the shells were traded and traditionally used. The Auwim case study is important because it is one of the relatively few sites across PNG for which we still have ethnography of rock art and therefore provides us with important insight into the past-present rock art practices and, concurrently, notions of cultural continuity.","PeriodicalId":163306,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130151265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}