{"title":"Pig and dog use in the pre-contact Society Island Chiefdoms: integrated ethnohistoric, archaeological and use-web analyses","authors":"Jennifer G. Kahn","doi":"10.1002/arco.5314","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5314","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pig and dog were highly valued animals in pre-contact Polynesia. In this paper, I focus on pig and dog use in the resource rich, and hierarchically complex, pre-contact Society Island chiefdoms. Utilizing ethnohistoric data and human-centred use-webs data, I provide a preliminary study of the diverse ways that pigs and dogs were used in pre-contact Mā‘ohi life across 13 use categories. Ethnohistoric analyses indicate that pigs, and to some extent dogs, were intimately associated with elite ceremonial use, yet pigs were commonly associated with war and fertility rituals, while dogs were commonly associated with peacekeeping events. Preliminary comparison of pig and dog frequencies at eight excavated archaeological sites suggests pig bones far outnumber dog bones. There is also differential recovery of pig and dog bone in terms of site function and site status, with high status temples dating to the Centralization Phase having the highest incidence of both species. It is highly likely that the advent of the ‘Oro war cult led to intensified pig husbandry, given this animal's robust associations with ritual use, moral notions of chiefly power and cosmology. Why dog husbandry was less intensified in the Society Islands, and why this animal was perhaps accessed largely through long-distance trade relationships, is an ongoing question.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 2","pages":"219-233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5314","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140743599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New discoveries from the early Māori village at Shag River Mouth, New Zealand, reveal intestinal parasites","authors":"Mark Horrocks, Bronwen Presswell, Ian W.G. Smith","doi":"10.1002/arco.5315","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5315","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Presented here are the results of archaeoparasitological analysis of habitation layers at Shag River Mouth, Otago coast. Two types of helminth eggs were identified: The first type is <i>Toxocara canis</i>, associated with the introduced kurī dog (<i>Canis familiaris</i>), which could have adversely affected local people and their dogs. The other type very closely resembles that of <i>Stringopotaenia psittacea</i>, associated with the critically endangered endemic kākāpō (<i>Strigops habroptilus</i>) parrot. The results represent the first South Island archaeo parasitological identifications. There was no starch or associated material in the samples, such as introduced Polynesian crops and indigenous starchy Māori food plants. This lack is consistent with the interpretation of the site as that of a transient village focused on big game hunting.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"149-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140258279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy Owen, Simon Munt, Sam Player, Phillip Toms, Jamie Wood
{"title":"First Nations pre-LGM ochre processing in Parramatta, NSW, Australia","authors":"Timothy Owen, Simon Munt, Sam Player, Phillip Toms, Jamie Wood","doi":"10.1002/arco.5313","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous archaeological evidence and published analysis has suggested that ochre was first used in the Sydney Basin around 9000 years ago, and that the Parramatta region may not have been occupied by First Nations peoples before ∼14 ka. We present new evidence which firmly places both events before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Multiple ochre fragments, two with microscopically visible evidence of anthropogenic grinding, were recovered from the George Street Gatehouse site within the Parramatta Sand Body (PSB) at Parramatta. The ground ochre was associated with a pit feature buried within the PSB and dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) between ∼35 and 30 ka. This find is the earliest evidence for ochre processing in the Sydney Basin by some 25000 years. A previous model for the region had proposed that occupation prior to and during the LGM was focussed on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River corridor as a refugium, with only equivocal evidence of occupation prior to ∼14 ka at Parramatta (Williams et al., 2021). We propose that the Parramatta River could also have acted as a refugium for people moving through and occupying the now-drowned Pleistocene coastal zone; and that those people used ochre in their symbolic expressions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"125-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Loukas G. Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor, Shane Ingrey
{"title":"Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia: Insights from the archaeological fauna of Curracurrang 1 Rockshelter, Royal National Park","authors":"Loukas G. Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor, Shane Ingrey","doi":"10.1002/arco.5311","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Curracurrang 1 (1CU5) is a rockshelter site located in the Royal National Park (RNP) on the coast south of Sydney. Excavated from 1962 to 1966, the site's rich Holocene cultural deposit has become important for understanding regional Late Holocene developments in Australian lithic and shell technologies. Our comprehensive analysis of 1CU5's faunal remains is presented here, accompanied by new AMS radiocarbon dates and a reinterpretation of the site's occupation sequence. Much of the midden deposit spans from about 2500 BP to approximately 1850 AD, rather than only the last ∼1500 years as originally believed based on less comprehensive dating. A wide range of terrestrial and marine fauna were exploited at 1CU5, with the relative importance of the latter group increasing within the last ∼1500 years. Greater fish consumption during the later period may relate to use of novel hook and line fishing technology using hooks made from shellfish, but concurrent increases in seals, seabirds and marine invertebrates suggest a broader increased reliance on marine resources. By comparison, the earlier period, which coincides with the manufacture of backed microliths, displays relatively greater reliance on terrestrial marsupials. Taxonomic representation suggests occupation of the shelter from winter through spring, and potentially into summer. Analysis of the 1CU5 fauna marks an important contribution to the understanding of Late Holocene economies at the interface of the greater Sydney and NSW South Coast cultural and biogeographic regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 2","pages":"350-381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jakarda Wuka (too many stories): Narratives of rock art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria by Li-Yanyuwa Li-Wirdiwalangu (Yanyuwa Elders), Liam M . Brady, John Bradley, and Amanda Kearney. Sydney University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978174332877. pp. 316 + xxx. AUD 49.99","authors":"Emily Grey","doi":"10.1002/arco.5312","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"154-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139807281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The archaeology of 19th century oyster consumption in Melbourne","authors":"Brendan Marshall","doi":"10.1002/arco.5310","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5310","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper presents comparative research on marine shell from four 19th century historical archaeological sites in Melbourne. The shell derives predominantly from Mud Oyster (<i>Ostrea angasi</i>) and Sydney Rock Oyster (<i>Saccostrea glomerata</i>) commercially harvested from natural reefs along the south-east Australian coastline. The research collects quantitative data that informs on the 19<sup>th</sup> century oyster industry and investigates inter-site shell variability and its implications for processing, consumption and discard. Dredging of subtidal reefs provides an explanation for the numerical dominance of oyster, the presence of subfossil cultch (<i>Anadara</i>) and the wide range of minor shellfish. Mud oyster and Sydney rock oyster comparisons in valve size, sided counts and preservation record significant differences within and between sites due to the origins, depositional conditions and the processing of the shell. These data form the basis of two models. The first predicts the archaeological representation of reef dredging and ranks shellfish according to categories, from live oysters to dead shell sampled from the reef substrate. Based on oyster shell anatomy and the separate uses of the right (lid) and left (dish) valves, the second model considers how oyster processing and consumption is characterised archaeologically in differential valve counts and pairing rates.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"91-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139872497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archaeology in OceaniaPub Date : 2024-01-24eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.14744/nci.2022.45656
Mehmet Erdem Cakmak
{"title":"Successful treatment using agalsidase alfa of a patient with Fabry disease who had anaphylaxis after agalsidase beta: A case report.","authors":"Mehmet Erdem Cakmak","doi":"10.14744/nci.2022.45656","DOIUrl":"10.14744/nci.2022.45656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fabry disease is a rare genetic disease caused by a deficiency of α-galactosidase A gene (α-Gal A). Two intravenous enzymes administered every two weeks, agalsidase alfa and beta can slow disease progression and increase survival if administered early, before organ damage occurs. In this case report, we present a patient with a history of anaphylaxis to agalsidase beta who was successfully treated with agalsidase alfa.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"29 1","pages":"88-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10861426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73101139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marshall I. Weisler, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Quan Hua, Fiona Bertuch, Thomas A. Wake, Yosihiko H. Sinoto
{"title":"Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia","authors":"Marshall I. Weisler, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Quan Hua, Fiona Bertuch, Thomas A. Wake, Yosihiko H. Sinoto","doi":"10.1002/arco.5308","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5308","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1976, Yosihiko H. Sinoto conducted extensive archaeological survey and excavations on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago as part of a Japanese, multi-disciplinary expedition led by Prof. Sachiko Hatanaka. Primarily excavating three marae and four habitation sites totalling ∼180 m<sup>2</sup>, more than 25000 vertebrate remains were recovered. We report the jidentification and analysis of the fauna and contrast the inventories from secular and sacred contexts inferring the ritual use of pig, dog, turtle and tuna (Scombridae), as well as identifying relatively larger parrotfish (Scaridae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae), the Humphead wrasse (<i>Cheilinus undulatus</i>) and sharks/rays (Elasmobranchii) on marae. With a suite of 11 new AMS age determinations, we report the first directly dated precontact records for pig and dog and anchor the marae chronology possibly beginning in the thirteenth century. The 800 calBP dates imply that at least one of the Tuamotu atolls may have emerged nearly two centuries prior to the hypothesised ‘cross-over’ date of 600 BP. Consequently, the earliest chronology of atoll emergence along the 1000 km length of the Tuamotus might vary, thus providing landscapes for human colonisation at slightly different times which has implications for the speed and tempo of colonisation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"29-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The pre-contact temple system of Hālawa Valley, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands","authors":"Patrick V. Kirch, Jillian Swift, Clive Ruggles","doi":"10.1002/arco.5309","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5309","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Building upon a pioneering 1909 survey of Moloka‘i Island <i>heiau</i> (temples) by archaeologist John F. G. Stokes, the pre-contact temple system of Hālawa Valley is described and analysed. Ten <i>heiau</i> were relocated and mapped, with seven sites test excavated and radiocarbon dated. The majority of sites are terraces or terraced platforms in architectural form, ranging in size from 72 to 1300 square meters in basal area. Functionally, the temples include fishing shrines (<i>ko‘a</i>), agricultural or fertility temples (<i>heiau ho‘oulu‘ai</i>), and one <i>luakini</i> or temple of human sacrifice dedicated to the war god Kū. The orientations of the temple foundations appear to be deliberate (rather than dictated by topography). One group is slightly offset from cardinality and shows an eastward orientation, likely associated with the god Kāne. A second group exhibits an orientation to the ENE, which is the direction of the star cluster Makali‘i (Pleiades), whose achronycal rising determined the onset of the Makahiki season dedicated to the god Lono. The radiocarbon dates indicate that the temples were constructed during the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, or the Archaic States Period of the Hawaiian cultural sequence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"68-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 600–700-year-old basalt adze production site from Mount Bates, Norfolk Island","authors":"Nicola Jorgensen, Amy Mosig Way, James Flexner","doi":"10.1002/arco.5307","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While pre-European settlement of Norfolk Island has been recognised for many decades, particularly the larger settlement site at Emily Bay, until this point there has been limited understanding, and very little systematic recording of evidence for inland settlement. This report presents the location, chronology, stratigraphy and artefact assemblage of a previously undocumented lithic production site from Mount Bates in the north-western uplands of Norfolk Island. The site dates to approximately 600–700 calBP. Excavations recovered over 1200 basalt artefacts, representing various stages in the adze production process. Sites such as this contribute to a better understanding of the range of activities carried out by Polynesian settlers of Norfolk Island, the stone tool economies of marginal Polynesia and the importance of local stone sources for understanding Oceanic settlement.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"59 1","pages":"138-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138614133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}