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ABC Condo Project site, Island of Guam __ Their first paragraph tells the story. "The human skeletal and dental remains of the one individual (Burial No. 1) recovered from the ABC Condo Project site, Island of Guam, are described and interpreted. The qualitative, quantitative, and sex-, age-, function-, and pathology-related aspects of skeletal and dental form are covered systematically in this report." - The graphics seem to be missing - From the Forsyth Institute - http://www.forsyth.org/marianas/gmh_abccondo.htm

Archaeology in New Caledonia __ Brief page about archaeology in New Caledonia. "While the coverage is only a couple of paragraphs long, it is more than can be found other places about the subject." - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~mcarson/newcal.html

Archaeology in the Marquesas Islands __ Pages about the recovery of a Polynesian chiefdom in the Marquesas Islands - photos - From afargo.org - http://www.afargo.org/ 

Archaeozoology in New Zealand __ A great introduction to zooarchaeology in New Zealand. You will learn about current projects, find a who's who, databases and more. - From Foss Leach. - http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/foss/Archaeozoology/index.htm


 
Australian Rock Art, Pictures of Rock... __ Pages are about the archaeology of the Dharawal People of New South Wales - photos - http://www.lesbursill.da.ru/

Centre for Archaeological Research - ANU __ This is the schedule of the Friday Afternoon Seminar Program 2002. You will find enough additional information to make the website a good resource. - From Australian National University - http://car.anu.edu.au/seminars2002.html

Central Australia Archaeology...__ "Sydney University's largest scale Australian archaeologicalproject is the Central Australia Archaeology Project(CAAP)." Project explores the archaeology of Australia's recent past. - photos and other illustrations - From University of Sydney - http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/archaeol/projects/caap/caap-hp.htm

Coastal Sydney's Archaeological Past to 1788 __ "The Port Jackson Archaeological project began in 1989 with its immediate aims being to investigate variations in the diet and material culture of people living in different parts of the study area, ie. marine, estuarine and freshwater (coastal hinterland) zones. - illustrated - From Australian Museum - http://www.austmus.gov.au/anthropology/research/coastal.htm
 
Current Research: Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project __ "An archaeological program is investigating sites up to 18,000 years old in Cania Gorge, near Monto, and at least 4,000 years old on the coast between Bundaberg and Gladstone. Unit staff and students and other volunteers regularly join Gooreng Gooreng people on fieldwork, to undertake site surveys, archaeological digs, rock-art recording and so on. Artefacts and other cultural and environmental samples collected under permit are brought temporarily to the University for analysis in the Unit's laboratories." Text links lead to additional information and illustrations. - From the University of Queensland - http://www.uq.edu.au/ATSIS/current-research/gooreng-gooreng.html

Dr. William S. Ayres's Pacific Island Studies __ website dedicated to archaeology in the Pacific, as well as Thailand - photos and other illustrations - By Dr. William S. Ayres - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~wsayres/

 

The Forced Repatriation of Archaeological Materials __ "The forced repatriation of archaeological materials is no longer just a problem for the United States and Canada; the concept has spread to the South Pacific." - From Australian Humanities Review - http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-1996/murray.html

Marianas Bioarchaeology Home Page __ This site deals with prehistory and bioarchaeology of the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific. You will find reports and general information. - From the Forsyth Institute - http://www.forsyth.org/marianas/

Polynesian Archaeology __ "The most ancient monuments of Polynesia are the lithic and megalithic remains, coincident in style and character with the Druidical circles of Europe, and the exact counterpart of those of Stonehenge and Carnac in Brittany. These earlier efforts of the human art are invariably the remains of temples, places of worship, or of edifices dedicated in some way to the religion and superstitions of extinct generations, whose graves cover every island and reef." You can read more of this excellent essay. - From Internet Sacred Text Archive - http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei60.htm
 
Prehistory of Papua New Guinea __ Learn about research on the island of Garua. "At first glance the scattered archaeological sites on this tropical Pacific island would seem to bear little resemblance to the much vaunted Pompeii. But they have one striking aspect in common: both were buried - and remarkably well preserved - by volcanic ash. Indeed over the past 6,000 years no fewer clan six eruptions have blanketed the 12-square-kilometer island in an ashen sarcophagus." Discover some of its history and even find out how to volunteer to work the site along with how much it costs. - From University of Sydney - http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/research/garua/torrence.html

Ryan-Polynesian Archaeology __ You will find some good articles about Polynesian archaeology and a lot of information about Thor Heyerdahl - From Dr. Donald P Ryan - http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/poly.html

Table of Contents __ "Read of archaeological research on the islands of Tonga. You will find detailed reports covering several islands along with photos, charts, and maps." - From Simon Fraser University - http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/tonga/toc.html


 

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