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Priorities and Objectives for March, April, May 1990. After two weeks of reviewing the recent Archeological publications available in the Archeology Department of the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, I have returned to Tubuai to continue exploration and artifact collection. The new data has focused my attention on the importance of recovering sub surface information. Unfortunately, not one radiocarbon date is available for Tubuai and a number of test pits should be undertaken in an effort to recover suitable material for testing. Normally such work is left to the realm of professional Archeologists however it now appears as though there is insufficient funds for such work here in the Australs. Nevertheless it is critically important that the essential work be undertaken as soon as possible considering the rapid destruction of the few remaining sites where there may be some possibility of recovering early material. The collection of artifacts by extensive ground search in recently farmed areas has led to the localization of artifact rich deposits. These deposits are quite limited in number and area, and will of course be the most likely candidates for test pit excavations. However the majority of the known sites have been much disturbed by farming so that limited peripheral zones may be all that remains, wherein undisturbed deposits may yet be discovered. In as much as the discovery of early deposits, with a limited number of fortuitously placed test pits is at the onset rather expecting miracles, this then coupled with the fact that excavations will be limited to the few remaining undisturbed pockets within artifact rich deposits, further reduces the possibilities of actually recovering some vestige related to the earliest occupations of Tubuai. |
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Illustration Index for Volume 13 - (click to invert the images) Page 8 - 13.1 Plano-lateral adzes, Lau and Hane examples 12 - 13.2 HOOURA burial diagram 15 - 13.2a Enlarged burial diagram 18 - 13.3 Burial 1 Femur with measurements 22 - 13.4 Femur bow with comparative examples 23 - 13.5 Femur head showing an oval fovea (right leg) 25 - 13.6 Variations in skull forms and facial angle 26 - 13.7 Mandible with enlarged molar diagrams 27 - 13.8 Skulls with variations in Cephalic Indexes 29 - 13.10 Burial 1 skull from above (with perforation) 30 - 13.11 Corrected Burial 1 skull 31 - 13.12 New Zealand skull vs Burial 1 skull 32 - 13.13 Reconstructed Burial 1 skull (side profile) 33 - 13.14 New Zealand skull (side profile) 34 - 13.15 Burial 1 radius fragment (left arm) 35 - 13.16 Burial 1 fibia (right leg) 36a - 13.17a Burial 1 skull 36b - 13.17b New Zealand skull 37 - 13.18 Burial 1 clavicle vs European example 38 - 13.19 Burial 1 clavicle with measurements 39 - 13.20 Burial 1 tibia (left leg) with measurement 42 - TIIRUA #1 after J. Duday 43 - Burial 1 skull (solar projection, from above) 44 - 13.21 Burial 1 third molar (groove pattern and wear damage 45 - 13.22 Burial 1 enlarged molars 46 - 13.25 Burial 1 tibial plateau (with measurements) 48 - 13.26 New Zealand mandible vs Burial 1 mandible 49 - 13.27 New Zealand mandible vs Burial 1 mandible 50 - 13.28 Burial 1 skull (right side) 51 - 13.29 Burial 1 skull reconstructed (left side) 52 - 13.30 Tubuai Map (showing the HOOURA burial site) 55 - 13.31 Tubuai and TIIRUA cadastral maps 56 - 13.32 TIIRUA Artifacts Map 1 57 - 13.33 Spinning top (from TIIRUA) 58 - 13.34 Spinning top with sections and Timo ball 60 - 13.35 Timo ball (from TIIRUA) 62 - 13.36 Adze Type 3Fa, 453-332-3Fa-1, (from TIIRUA) 66 - 13.37 Adze Type 4Fa, 453-301-4Fa-1f 68 - 13.37a Samoan adze vs Tubuai adze 453-215-4Fa-1f 70 - 13.38 Burial 1 femur head with fovea (left leg) 75 - 13.39 Burial 1 ulna (right arm) 76 - 13.43 Burial 1 ulna (with measurements) 77 - 13.44 Burial 1 ulna fragment (left arm) 78 - 13.45 Burial 1 spinal column (deterioration damage) 79 - 13.46 Burial 1 radius (right arm) 80 - 13.47 Burial 1 radius (showing DD and measurements) 81 -13.48 Burial 1 radius fragment (left arm) 82 - 13.49 BUrial 1 radius (left arm) 84 - 13.50 Burial 1 femur (right leg showing DD) 85 - 13.51 Burial 1 tibial plateau (showing tilt and measurements) 86 - 13.52 Burial 1 tibia (left side) 87 - 13.53 Burial 1 tibia (with measurements and DD) 89 - 13.54 Burial 1 fibia (right leg with measurements) 90 - 13.55 Burial 1 fibia (right leg with cross sections) 94 - 13.56 Burial I clavicle (from the right shoulder) 96 - 13.57 Burial 1 clavicle (showing DD and measurements) Appendix II - Maps 98 - 13.58 URUHAU map with Ft. George 99 - 13.59 HOOURA MAP (from the autocad ARCHEO file) 100 - 13.60 HOOURA Map (with enlarged burial detail) 101 - 13.61 Taahuaia cadastral details for HOOURA 1, 2, 3 102 - 13.62 Tubuai map Appendix III Illustrated Artifacts 105 - 13.63 Adze Type 2B sections 106 - 13.64 Adze fragment 453-1-2B-1f 107 - 13.70 Pearl-shell hook fragment 452-312-PSH-11 108 - 13.71 Tubuai fishook vs Marquesan fishook 110 - 13.65 Octopus lure sinkers (C. Mignard Collection) 111 - 13.66 Pearl-shell hook fragment 452-318-PSH-21 112 - 13.67 Pearl-shell hook fragment 452-318-PSH-31 114 - 13.69 Adze fragment 453-332-2Ac-1f 115 - 13.68 Pearl-shell hook fragment 452-313-PSH-11 116 - 13.76 Shell kook fragment 453-222-PSH-11 118 - 13.40 Tubuai octopus lure sinkers vs Marquesan example 122 - 13.78 Adze fragment 453-271-4Ea-11 124 -13.41 Adze Type 4Ea blade tip comparisons 126 - 13.64 Adze fragment 453-332-1Aa-1f 130 - 13.79 Adze fragment 452-318-UN-1f 132 - 13.75 Latirus-shell chisel 452-313-LSC-N-1 133 - 13.72 Terebra-shell chisel 452-318-TSC-S-2 134 - 13.77 Terebra-shell chisels 135 - 13.73 Terebra-shell chisel 452-314-TSC-C-1 136 - 13.74 Terebra-shell chisel 452-313-TSC-C-1 138 - 13.80 Adze fragment 452-318-6Ac-1f 142 - 13.81 Octopus lure sinker 452-318-OLS-1 |
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