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  • On The Periphery? Archaeological Investigations At Ngelong, Angaur Island, Palau

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    Clark, Geoffery
    Wright, Duncan
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    Wright, Duncan
    Year published
    2005
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    Abstract
    Ngelong is an extensive late-prehistoric site situated within the rugged limestone terrain of Angaur Island. Earlier research documented extensive midden and artefact deposits, but only a few stone structures. Recent archaeological work has confirmed the relative absence of built stone features, and obtained new data-including radiocarbon dates and X-Ray Fluorescence results-to evaluate the Ngelong occupation. These indicate the site dates to 450-250 cal. B.P., and overlaps in time with Rock Island villages containing abundant stone work. Compared to several other prehistoric sites in southern Palau, Ngelong is ...
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    Ngelong is an extensive late-prehistoric site situated within the rugged limestone terrain of Angaur Island. Earlier research documented extensive midden and artefact deposits, but only a few stone structures. Recent archaeological work has confirmed the relative absence of built stone features, and obtained new data-including radiocarbon dates and X-Ray Fluorescence results-to evaluate the Ngelong occupation. These indicate the site dates to 450-250 cal. B.P., and overlaps in time with Rock Island villages containing abundant stone work. Compared to several other prehistoric sites in southern Palau, Ngelong is atypical, and appears to represent community occupation of a peripheral socio-economic landscape as a result of warfare, a possibility also found in traditional accounts. While constructed defences indicate the existence of inter-group hostility in the past, it is suggested the outcome of warfare resulted in significant differences between late-prehistoric Palauan communities, which can be identified in the archaeological settlement record.
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    Journal Title
    Micronesica
    Volume
    38
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://micronesica.org/volumes/38
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2005. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
    Subject
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/51241
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