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On the Margins of Sustainability: Prehistoric settlement of Utrōk Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands

On the Margins of Sustainability: Prehistoric settlement of Utrōk Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 967

Archaeology

ISBN10: 184171254X
ISBN13: 9781841712543
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Sep 15 2001
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.43 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

The 34 islands that comprise the Marshall group lie in the Pacific Ocean some half way between Hawaii and New Guinea. This study, incorporating landscape, habitation sites, chronologies, and material culture, is a detailed archaeological survey of Utrôk Atoll (in the Northern Marshall Islands) by the former Chief Archaeologist for the Historic Preservation Office, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Low coral atolls are the most precarious of Pacific island landscapes. Utrôk Atoll was colonized and settled for nearly 2000 years, and that resource depression and extinctions were not more visible archaeologically may signal that human populations lived in a sustainable manner. Future investigations may reveal different patterns of resource use, and it is with this comparative approach that we may come to understand the breadth of atoll adaptations - technological, economic, and social.

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