scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dates from American Samoa

Radiocarbon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Clark
Keyword(s):  
American Samoa ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Ceramic Components ◽  
Ceramic Assemblages ◽  
Key Sites

Between 1988 and 1991, I directed five archaeological research projects in American Samoa. The goal of that research was to reveal changes in the prehistoric settlement system of Samoa, from initial colonization of the archipelago to the time of significant European contact. The chronological placement of key sites was an essential facet of the research. A secondary goal was to locate sites with ceramic components, particularly sites with Lapita ceramics, and relate the ceramic assemblages typologically and chronologically to those known for Western Samoa. These investigations generated 16 14C dates from archaeological contexts. I present here the previously unpublished 14C data from those samples, and briefly summarize their importance for understanding Samoan prehistory.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dates from two Coastal Sites in the Manu'a Group, American Samoa

Radiocarbon ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
T L Hunt ◽  
P V Kirch
Keyword(s):  
American Samoa ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Terminal Phase ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Calcareous Sand ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Prehistoric Pottery ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Prehistoric Ceramics

Samples of inshore marine shell species (various taxa, see description below) were collected from controlled excavation of ceramic-bearing strata of two archaeologic sites in the Manu'a Island group, American Samoa. Located on the closely adjacent islands of Ta'u and Ofu (14° 14’ 30” S, 169° 30’ 40” E and 14° 10’ 55” S, 169° 39’ 0” E, respectively), these sites represent human occupation along shorelines undergoing a parallel depositional sequence of calcareous sand dune development and concomitant seaward progradation. Our primary objective was to obtain an initial age estimate for prehistoric ceramics from eastern Samoa. On stylistic and technologic criteria, the ceramics recovered from our excavations can be classified as thick-coarse Polynesian Plainware. Based on previous studies in Western Samoa, Polynesian Plainware represents a terminal phase of prehistoric pottery manufacture in the Samoan Islands, believed to date from ca 200 bc to ad 300 (Green & Davidson, 1974).

A Medieval Burial from Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Paul R. J. Duffy ◽  
Olivia Lelong
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Research Division ◽  
The North ◽  
The Individual

Summary An archaeological excavation was carried out at Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) as part of the Historic Scotland Human Remains Call-off Contract following the discovery of human remains during machine excavation of a foundation trench for a new housing development. Excavation demonstrated that the burial was that of a young adult male who had been interred in a supine position with his head orientated towards the north. Radiocarbon dates obtained from a right tibia suggest the individual died between the 15th and 17th centuries AD. Little contextual information exists in documentary or cartographic sources to supplement this scant physical evidence. Accordingly, it is difficult to further refine the context of burial, although a possible link with a historically attested siege or a plague cannot be discounted.

Cochliobolus heterostrophus. [Distribution map].

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
New South ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Cochliobolus Heterostrophus ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
New Hebrides

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Cochliobolus heterostrophus (Drechsl.) Drechsl. Hosts: Maize (Zea mays) and other Gramineae. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Dahomey, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, ASIA, Bangladesh, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China (Honan, Manchuria, Nanking, Yunnan), Hong Kong, India (Delhi, Himalayas & S. India, West Bengal), (Bihar, Punjab), (Laccadive Ils), Indonesia (Irian Jaya), (Java), Israel, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, (W) (Sabah), (Sarawak), Nepal, Pakistan (SW), Philippines, Western Samoa, Thailand, Vietnam, AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, Australia (New South Wales, NT, Qd), Fiji, Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, EUROPE, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, USSR (Caucasus), Yugoslavia, NORTH AMERICA, Canada (Ontario), (Quebec), Mexico, USA (Pa to Fla and Tex.), CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Trinidad, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina (Tucuman), Bolivia, Brazil (Bahia), Colombia, Eucador, French, Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Surinam, Venezuela.

Cercospora coffeicola. [Distribution map].

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Cercospora Coffeicola ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Comoro Islands

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Cercospora coffeicola Berk. & Cooke. Hosts: coffee (Coffea spp.). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Comoro Islands, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sao Tome, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Asia, Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Yunnan, Taiwan, India, Madras, Mysore, Indonesia, Java, Laos, Malaysia, Sabah, Philippines, Portuguese Timor, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam, Yemeni Republic, Australasia & Oceania, Australia, Queensland, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, American Samoa, Western Samoa, North America, Mexico, Central America & West Indies, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Antilles, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Salvador, Trinidad, South America, Bolivia, Brazil, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

Current Research and Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Northern Africa, III

1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela E. Close
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
North African ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Plant Foods ◽  
Khartoum Mesolithic ◽  
Subsistence Activities ◽  
First Time

This article reports on developments in archaeological research in North Africa during the last four years, as these are reflected in the 350, or thereabouts, radiocarbon (and thermoluminescence) dates that have appeared since the last review. The number of new dates, and new data, becoming available indicate that North African archaeology is flourishing, although, in contrast to the earlier decades of this century, the focus seems now to be moving toward the eastern part of the region, and toward matters of adaptation rather than of simple classification, as exemplified by the new interpretations of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic in Mauritania.The lower Nile Valley has yielded evidence for an intensification of subsistence activities in the Late Palaeolithic in two areas, Makhadma and Kubbaniya, both involving fish-harvesting and the latter also witnessing the use of plant-foods on a scale hitherto undocumented for this period.At the beginning of the Holocene, there is now good evidence for an eighth millennium bc Neolithic in northern Niger, complete with sophisticated ceramics, which complements the evidence already known for similar phenomena further east in the Sahara. There is even a possibility that the Khartoum Mesolithic of the central Nile Valley might be equally old. Our understanding of the Sudanese Neolithic has greatly increased. For the first time, there appears to be a development from the Khartoum Mesolithic into the Khartoum Neolithic, albeit located outside the Valley. The Khartoum Neolithic is more or less confined to the fourth millennium bc, but did give rise to the later Kadada Neolithic. After Kadada, the focus of settlement seems to have shifted outside the Valley until Meroitic times.In the protohistoric and historic periods, we have a better understanding of the chronology of the Egyptian Predynastic, although not yet of its development; what models exist will be radically modified if the pyramids are indeed as old as the dates on them now indicate. Finally, far from the Nile Valley in northern Niger, there comes detailed evidence of the development of a precocious metallurgical tradition within a Neolithic context.

Radiocarbon Dates for Sub-Saharan Africa: VI

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
European Contact ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa

The Sixth List contains many dates from Eastern and Southern Africa. An important sequence of dates from Malawi is published, indicating that the Iron Age there had begun as early as the third century A.D. The beginnings of the Zambian Early Iron Age are well established by the fourth century, while important new dates for ‘Dimple-based’ wares in Rwanda and Kenya place that pottery type within the same time span.The Palabora dates from the Transvaal indicate that the Limpopo valley was settled by Iron Age people by the eighth century, and numerous isolated samples are recorded. The five dates from Ife in Nigeria confirm that the terracotta sculpture there was being made before European contact, while numerous samples for earlier sites are published.

Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radiocarbon Dates

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. McNutt ◽  
Richard P. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Northern Plains ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Dating Methods

A chronology program was launched in December, 1957, by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of testing culture sequences in the Central and Northern Plains and contiguous regions. The Missouri Basin Chronology Program envisages (a) assembling all relevant chronological data in hand and (b) selecting materials for analysis by the various dating methods. The Missouri Basin Project acts as coordinator of the program; it has received enthusiastic response and is now cooperating with a dozen institutions in the area engaged in archaeological research.

On Puerto Rican Archaeology

1965 ◽  
Vol 31 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 246-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo E. Alegría
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Intermediate Position ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Cultural Traditions

AbstractHistorical sources corroborated by archaeological research demonstrate that the Antillean area was inhabited by people of three cultural traditions. Puerto Rico, because of its intermediate position between the Greater and Lesser Antilles, is of great importance in determining the chronology and the distribution of West Indian aboriginal cultures. Recent radiocarbon dates demonstrate that Puerto Rico was first populated by a preceramic people who arrived before the Christian era. A relationship between these Indians and certain preceramic groups of Venezuela has been postulated, although neither the chronology of the sites nor their distribution correspond. Other radiocarbon dates from Puerto Rico establish a clear relationship between the different pottery styles of the island and those of the Lesser Antilles and Venezuela.

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