Holocene paleoshoreline and paleoenvironmental history of palau: Implications for human settlement

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-196

  Dickinson, William R ^a   Athens, J Stephen ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b International Archaeological Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Babeldaob; Micronesia; Palau; Paleoenvironment; Paleoshorelines; Palynology; Reefs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SHORELINE;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAU;

MYCTEROPERCA FUSCA;

EID: 41549098612     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564890701623639     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Allen, M. S. 1998. Holocene sea-level change on Aitutaki, Cook Islands: Landscape change and human response. Journal of Coastal Research 14:10-22.
2. Allen, M. S. and D. W. Steadman. 1990. Excavations at the Ureia site, Aitutaki, Cook Islands: Preliminary results. Archaeology in Oceania 25:24-37.
3. Amesbury, J. R., D. R. Moore, and R. L. Hunter-Anderson. 1996. Cultural adaptations and late Holocene sea level change in the Marianas: Recent excavations at Chalan Piao, Saipan. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 15:53-69.
4. Anderson, A. 1984. Palaeoenvironmental evidence of island colonization: A response. Antiquity 68:845-847.
5. Athens, J. S., M. F. Dega, and J. V. Ward. 2004. Austronesian colonisation of the Mariana Islands: The paleoenvironmental evidence. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin (Taipei Papers, Volume 2) 24:21-30.
6. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2001. Paleoenvironmental evidence for early human settlement in Palau: The Ngerchau core. In Pacific 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific (C. M. Stevenson, G. Lee, and F. Morin, eds.):165-178. Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation.
7. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2002. Holocene Paleoenvironmental Investigations on Ngerekebesang, Koror, South Babeldaob, and Peleliu Islands, Palau [report prepared for Palau National Communications Corporation], Honolulu: International Archaeological Research Institute.
8. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2004. Holocene vegetation, savannah origins, and human settlement of Guam. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific: Papers in Honour of Jim Specht (V. Attenbrow and R. Fullagar, eds.):15-30. Sydney: Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 29.
9. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2005a. Holocene Paleoenvironment of Saipan: Analysis of a Core from Lake Susupe [report prepared for Division of Historic Preservation, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands]. Honolulu: International Archaeological Research Institute.
10. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2005b. Palau Compact Road Archaeological Investigations, Babeldaob Island, Republic of Palau; Phase I: Intensive Archaeological Survey; Volume IV: Holocene Paleoenvironment and Landscape Change [report prepared for Department of the Army, U.S. Army Engineer District, Honolulu]. Honolulu: International Archaeological Research Institute.
11. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. 2006. Aimakapa Fishpond: Paleoenvironment at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, North Kona, Hawai'l Island [report prepared for National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Hawai'i]. Honolulu: International Archaeological Research Institute.
12. Athens, J. S. and J. V. Ward. n.d. Ko'ie'ie Fishpond, Kihei, Maui: Chronology and Paleoenvironment [report prepared for Ao'Ao O Na Loko I'a O Maui, Kihei, Maui], Honolulu: International Archaeological Research Institute.
13. Bard, E., B. Hamelin, M. Arnold, L. Montaggioni, G. Cabioch, G. Faure, and F. Rougerie. 1996. Deglacial sea-level record from Tahiti corals and the timing of global meltwater discharge. Nature 382:241-244.
14. Burley, D. V. and S. P. Connaughton. 2007. First Lapita settlement and its chronology in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga. Radiocarbon 49:131-137.
15. Butler, B. M. 1994. Early prehistoric settlement in the Mariana Islands: New evidence from Saipan. Man and Culture in Oceania 10:15-38.
16. Cane, M. A. 2005. The evolution of El Niño, past and future. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 230:227-240.
17. Clark, G. 2004. Radiocarbon dates from the Ulong site in Palau and implications for western Micronesian prehistory. Archaeology in Oceania 39:26-33.
18. Clark, G. 2005. A 3000-year culture sequence from Palau, western Micronesia. Asian Perspectives 44:349-380.
19. Clark, G., A. Anderson, and D. Wright. 2006. Human colonization of the Palau Islands, western Micronesia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1:215-232.
20. Clark, G. and D. Wright. 2003. The colonisation of Palau: Preliminary results from Angaur and Ulong. In Pacific Archaeology: Assessments and Prospects (C. Sand, ed.):85-94. Noumea, New Caledonia: Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie 15.
21. Corwin, G., C. L. Rogers, and P. O. Elmquist. 1956. Military Geology of Palau Islands, Caroline Islands. Honolulu: Intelligence Division, Office of the Engineer, Headquarters US Army Forces Far East.
22. Craib, J. L. 1993. Early occupation at Unai Chulu, Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 13:116-134.
23. Dickinson, W. R. 1998. Geomorphology and geodynamics of the Cook-Austral island-seamount chain in the South Pacific Ocean: Implications for hotspots and plumes. International Geology Review 40:1039-1075.
24. Dickinson, W. R. 2000. Hydro-isostatic and tectonic influences on emergent paleoshorelines in the Mariana Islands, western Pacific Ocean. Journal of Coastal Research 16:735-746.
25. Dickinson, W. R. 2001. Paleoshoreline record of relative Holocene sea levels on Pacific islands. Earth Science Reviews 55:191-234.
26. Dickinson, W. R. 2003. Impact of mid-Holocene hydro-isostatic highstand in regional sea level on habitability of islands in Pacific Oceania. Journal of Coastal Research 19:489-502.
27. Dickinson, W. R. 2004. Impacts of eustasy and hydro-isostasy on the evolution and landforms of Pacific atolls. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213:251-269.
28. Dickinson, W. R. 2006. Temper Sands in Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery: Geotectonics, Sedimentology, Petrography, Provenance. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America Special Paper 406.
29. Dickinson, W. R. 2007. Upolu (Samoa): Perspective on island subsidence from volcano loading. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology '2:236-238.
30. Dickinson, W. R. and D. V. Burley. 2007. Geoarchaeology of Tonga: Geotectonic and geomorphic controls. Geoarchaeology 22:231-261.
31. Dickinson, W. R., D. V. Burley, and R. Shutler, Jr. 1999. Holocene paleoshoreline record in Tonga: Geomorphic features and archaeological implications. Journal of Coastal Research 15:682-700.
32. Dickinson, W. R., B. M. Butler, D. R. Moore, and M. Swift. 2001. Geologic sources and geographic distribution of sand tempers in prehistoric potsherds from the Mariana Islands. Geoarchaeology 16:827-854.
33. Dickinson, W. R. and R. C. Green. 1998. Geoarchaeological context of Holocene subsidence at the ferry berth Lapita site, Mulifanua, Upolu, Samoa. Geoarchaeology 13:239-263.
34. Dodson, J. R. and M. Intoh. 1999. Prehistory and paleoecology of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Quaternary International 59:17-26.
35. Easton, W. H. and T. -H. Ku. 1980. Holocene sea-level changes in Palau, west Caroline Islands. Quaternary Research 14:199-209.
36. Fitzpatrick, S. M. 2003. Early human burials in the western Pacific: Evidence for a c.3000 year old occupation on Palau. Antiquity 77:719-731.
37. Fitzpatrick, S. M., W. R. Dickinson, and G. Clark. 2003. Ceramic petrography and cultural interaction in Palau. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:1175-1184.
38. Fleming, K., P. Johnston, D. Zwartz, Y. Yokoyama, K. Lambeck, and J. Chappell. 1998. Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the last-glacial maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 163:327-342.
39. Gagan, M. K., E. J. Hendy, S. G. Haberle, and W. S. Hantoro. 2004. Post-glacial evolution of the Indo- Pacific Warm Pool and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Quaternary International 118-119:127-143.
40. Hanebuth, T., K. Stattegger, and P. Grootes. 2002. Rapid flooding of the Sunda Shelf: A late-glacial sea- level record. Science 288:1033-1035.
41. Haston, R., M. Fuller, and E. Schmidtke. 1988. Paleomagnetic results from Palau, West Caroline Islands: A constraint on Philippine Sea plate motion. Geology 16:654-657.
42. Hughen, K. A., M. G. L. Baillie, E. Bard, J. W. Beck, C. J. H. Bertrand, P. G. Blackwell, C. E. Buck, et al. 2004. Marine04 marine radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon 46:1059-1086
43. Kayanne, H., H. Yamano, and R. H. Randall. 2002. Holocene sea-level changes and barrier reef formation on an oceanic island, Palau Islands, western Pacific. Sedimentary Geology 150:47-60.
44. Kelletat, D. 1991. Main trends of Palau Islands' coastal evolution, identified by air and ground truthing. GeoJournal 24:77-85.
45. Kirch, P. V. 1996. Late Holocene human-induced modifications to a central Polynesian ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93:5296-5300.
46. Kirch, P. V. and J. Ellison. 1994. Paleoenvironmental evidence for human colonization of remote Oceanic islands. Antiquity 68:310-321.
47. Kirch, P. V., J. R. Flenley, and D. W. Steadman. 1991. A radiocarbon chronology for humaninduced environmental change on Mangaia, southern Cook Islands. Radiocarbon 33:317-328.
48. Kirch, P. V., D. W. Steadman, V. L. Butler, J. Hather, and M. I. Weisler. 1995. Prehistory and human ecology in eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau rocksheiter, Mangaia. Archaeology in Oceania 30:47-65.
49. Kobayashi, K. 2000. Horizontally-moving subducted slab may generate enigmatic features of the Palau and Yap trench-arcs. Proceedings of the Japan Academy 76(Ser. B):133-138.
50. Kurashina, H. and R. N. Clayshulte. 1983. Site formation processes and cultural sequence at Tarague, Guam. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 4:114-122.
51. Liston, J. 2005. An assessment of radiocarbon dates from Palau, western Micronesia. Radiocarbon 47:295-354.
52. Masse, W. B. 1990. Radiocarbon dating, sea-level change and the peopling of Belau. Micronesica Supplement 2:213-230.
53. Meijer, A., M. Reagan, H. Ellis, M. Shafiqullah, J. Suter, P. Damon, and S. Kling. 1983. Chronology of events in the eastern Philippine Sea. In The Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asian Seas and Islands; Part 2 (D. E. Hayes, ed.):349-359. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union Monograph 27.
54. Mitrovica, J. X. and G. A. Milne. 2002. On the origin of late Holocene sea-level highstands within equatorial ocean basins. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:2179-2190.
55. Mitrovica, J. X. and W. R. Peltier. 1991. On postglacial geoid subsidence over the equatorial oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research 96:20053-20071.
56. Peltier, W. R. 2002. On eustatic sea level history: last glacial maximum to Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:377-396.
57. Phear, S., G. Clark, and A. Anderson. 2003. A radiocarbon chronology for Palau. In Pacific Archaeology: Assessments and Prospects (C. Sand, ed.):255-263. Noumea, New Caledonia: Cahiers de l'Archeologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie 15.
58. Rainbird, P. 1994. Prehistory in the northwest tropical Pacific: The Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands. Journal of World Prehistory 8:293-349.
59. Reimer, P. J., M. G. L. Baillie, E. Bard, A. Bayliss, J. W. Beck, C. J. H. Bertrand, P. G. Blackwell, et al. 2004. Intcal04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon 46:1029-1058.
60. Rytuba, J. J. and W. R. Miller. 1990. Geology and geochemistry of epithermal precious metal vein systems in the intra-oceanic island arcs of Palau and Yap, western Pacific. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 35:413-447.
61. Steadman, D. W. 1995. Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: Biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Science 267:1123-1131.
62. Steadman, D. W. 2006. Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
63. Welch, D. J. 2001. Early upland expansion of Palauan settlement. In Pacific 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific (C. M. Stevenson, G. Lee, and F. Morin, eds.):179-184. Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation.
64. Wickler, S. 2001. The colonization of western Micronesia and early settlement in Palau. In Pacific 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific (C. M. Stevenson, G. Lee, and F. Morin, eds.):185-196. Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation.
65. Wickler, S. 2002. Terraces and villages: Transformations of the cultural landscape in Palau. In Pacific Landscapes: Archaeological Approaches (T. N. Ladefoged and M. W. Graves, eds.):63-93. Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation.