As early as the first millennium AD, the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge
of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured …

Studies of megalithic ruins called latte and other related material traces potentially offer
insights into an associated latte period, approximately AD 900 through 1700, quite …

This is the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia, an island group in the
Western Pacific Ocean. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological, anthropological and …

An introduction to the range of factors that affect the composition and condition of human
bone assemblages recovered from archaeological contexts, with discussion of the …

Using a variety of skeletal and dental stress indicators, an assessment of the health and
disease of the indigenous inhabitants of the Mariana Islands, the Chamorro, is made. The …

Palaeoenvironmental investigations not only provide information about past climate,
geomorphological changes, and vegetation, but also can give a unique and complementary …

The frequency and age distribution of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in the dentition of 293
individuals from Latte Period sites (AD 800–1521) on Guam, Mariana Islands, are examined …

Renewed archaeological investigation at Unai Bapot in Saipan refines the documentation of
chronological change during the earliest period of human occupation of the Mariana Islands …

This article proposes that early modern globalization took shape through the global
circulation of gender ideologies, sexual politics, engendered technologies, and engendered …

The earliest identified settlement is in the Marianas, dated to about 3500 BP, while the other
islands in the region appear to be settled from about 2000 BP onward. The archaeological …