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Faʻahia, Huahine, and waterlogged settlement evidence

Vaitoʻotia-Faʻahia regional context, Huahine

Wood, fibre, fishing evidence, and ceramics make Faʻahia an important early settlement context. Rescue excavation and redating show how preservation and sample choice shape the account.

Archaeological settlement and landscape context Approximately 1050-1200 CE for cited early occupation estimates Waterlogged organic objects, fish remains, stratigraphy, short-lived radiocarbon samples, and comparative ritual-architecture studies. Vaitoʻotia-Faʻahia regional context, Huahine; approximate archaeological or regional orientation point only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, trade-route, sovereignty, or modern national boundary. Not an excavation coordinate or permission to enter sacred or private places.
Resumo

Ilhas, lares e mundos oceânicos ligados

Ambientes insulares, costeiros e oceânicos

The site near Fare spans adjoining land tracts and a changing wet coastal setting. The regional marker does not locate protected deposits for access.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Household work and marine economies are visible; a named state or centralized island authority is not demonstrated by these early deposits.

Transformação posterior, património vivo e recepção moderna

Local authorities and research partners sustain heritage work. Later religious landscapes and living communities must not be reduced to one early assemblage.

Dating Initial occupation estimated around 1050-1160 CE

The 2019 study uses new short-lived samples from a lower cultural layer, with explicit stratigraphic limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Food Fish remains allow focused comparison

The zooarchaeological study examines particular excavated areas, not the diet of every island resident.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Ritual evidence Marae origins require chronological testing

Museum research discusses uprights and later structures without making visual resemblance a secure date.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Early dated occupation

    The cited model supports an early second-millennium context rather than an exact arrival year.

    [S1]

  2. Rescue excavations

    Development exposed material and triggered investigations of Vaitoʻotia and Faʻahia.

    [S2]

  3. Renewed fieldwork

    Limited re-excavation recovered new context and dating samples.

    [S1]

  4. Chronology reassessed

    The publication questioned earlier settlement arguments reliant on inbuilt age.

    [S1]
Cultura e língua

Navegação, alimentação, artesanato, trabalho, crenças e evidências materiais

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.

Família linguística: Language relationships are a separate line of evidence, not a ceramic, biological, or citizenship classification.

Organic preservation

Fishing evidence

Short-lived dating samples

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    Polynesian Wayfinding

    Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

  2. C2

    Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making

    UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record

  3. C3

    The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia

    Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997

  4. C4
  5. C5

    Cook Island artifact geochemistry demonstrates spatial and temporal extent of pre-European interarchipelago voyaging in East Polynesia

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological sourcing study · 2016

  6. C6

    Three Late 18th Century CE East Polynesian Sails in the British Museum Reveal Regional Adaptations in Sailing Technology

    Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed study of later collected evidence · 2025

  7. C7

    The Ancient Capitals of the Kingdom of Tonga

    Tonga National Commission for UNESCO, hosted by UNESCO · State-submitted tentative-list record, not World Heritage inscription · 2007

  8. C8

    Household expansion linked to agricultural intensification during emergence of Hawaiian archaic states

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological study · 2011

  9. C9

    Echoing Wahi Kūpuna

    Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

  10. C10

    Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe

    Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02

  11. C11

    Wairau, List No. 9561

    Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record

  12. S1

    New excavations at Fa'ahia (Huahine, Society Islands) and chronologies of central East Polynesian colonization

    Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Primary archaeological chronology study · 2019

  13. S2

    Prehistoric Fishing at Fa'ahia, Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia

    Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Persée · Primary zooarchaeological study · 1998

  14. S3

    When and how did the marae structure develop?

    Kon-Tiki Museum · Institutional heritage resource · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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