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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 25 October 2013  Page Views: 4531

DigsSite Name: Hanamiai Dune
Country: Pacific Islands
NOTE: This site is 637.199 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Vaitahu
Latitude: 9.937S  Longitude: 139.107W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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1Awful
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Hanamiai Dune
Hanamiai Dune submitted by dodomad : Setting of the Hanamiai Dune site, discovered by Barry and his field team. More images from the dig here Image credit: Dr Barry Rolett Site in Pacific Islands (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Hanamiai dune lies on the west coast of Tahuata, one of the best ports in the Marquesas, with occupation dating back 1000 years. It later developed into the seat of a Polynesian chiefdom.

The first European contact was by the Spanish in 1595. They described a town of timber and cane buildings and a religious site surrounded by a palisade. Archaeological finds include the nearby site of a tohua koina, a community site with stone foundation buildings and dance grounds.

Excavations by the Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research continue as field schools.

Tahuata_Museum website.

Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research's Marquesas Project website. and more images from the 2012 dig here.

Note: Archaeologists rediscover an ancient Polynesian chiefdom
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Archaeologists Rediscover an Ancient Polynesian Chiefdom by bat400 on Friday, 25 October 2013
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When we think of early civilizations, we think of organized agriculture, monumental structures, kings, ritual human sacrifice, organized warfare and a pantheon of gods. These were often hallmarks of ancient societies like Sumer, Egypt and the Maya and Aztec of Mesoamerica. But what comparatively few of us know is that the ancient Polynesians of the far-flung islands of the Pacific also built civilizations not dissimilar to these better-known civilizations of the Old World.

Among the last places on earth to be discovered and settled by humans, the Polynesian islands, archipelagoes like those of Hawai'i and the Marquesas, were inhabited by groups of people whos ancestors had gradually voyaged eastward and northward, likely stemming from even earlier ancestral groups that, according to archaeologists, began their trek long before the beginning of the Common Era along the shores of Fujian and Guangdon on the South China coast and the shores of Taiwan. Cultures changed or evolved once they became established on the islands after initial colonization, developing into chiefdoms and eventually, as in the case of Hawai'i, into societies dominated by god-kings with all the trappings characteristic of archaic civilizations.

Now, archaeologists under the direction of Dr. Barry Rolett, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i and President of the Andover Foundation of Archaeological Research, are investigating and excavating sites on the Marquesas Islands that show a history of settlement going back over 1,000 years. In 1774, Captain James Cook recorded contact with a well-developed chiefdom on the island of Tahuata, one of the islands of the Marquesas. The current focus of excaations, a site called the Hanamiai dune, lies on the coast of one of Tahuata's ports. This site is yielding remains that add to the evidence uncovered thus far in other parts of the island, evidence of monumental architecture, elaborate art, and a religious system in which ceremonies included human sacrifices. The Tahuata island investigations have uncovered intact remains of residential and ceremonial centers and a range of artifacts from fishhooks made of pearl shell to European contact era trade goods like glass beads, bronze nails, clay pipes, gun flints, and musket balls.

Although the Marquesas have a long history of European contact and influence, the first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians, who, based on the archæological evidence, are suggested to have arrived before 100 AD. Ethnological and linguistic evidence points to their arrival from Tonga and Samoa. But, like the cultures on other Polynesian islands of the Pacific, the culture and society on the Marquesas underwent change through time, and the chiefdom or chiefdoms that ruled there developed along paths that differed from their ancestral roots in Tonga and Samoa.

Researchers hope that the project will add significant additional light on the nature and trade relationships of this chiefdom and what it says about the development of Polynesian society in the Pacific.


Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see popular-archaeology.com
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