JPAR Volume 2, 2025
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Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Native Hawaiians in the Northern Mariana and Ogasawara Islands: An Historical Perspective(2025-09-05) Dixon, Boyd; Barna, BenThis study focuses on Native Hawaiians recorded in the Northern Mariana and Ogasawara Islands from an historical perspective. In 1811, a group of Native Hawaiians were forcibly brought against their wishes to the Northern Mariana Islands from Kauaʻi. They were then removed by the colonial Spanish administration and incorporated into the larger native CHamoru and Carolinian populations of Guam. In 1830, other Native Hawaiians with European and American settlers immigrated to the Ogasawara Islands from the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Their mixed heritage descendants eventually became Japanese citizens in 1876, remaining until WWII when they were evacuated to Japan. Under American rule from 1946 to 1968, they were returned to Ogasawara and remain Japanese citizens today. The tenure of Hawaiians on Agrihan island in the Northern Marianas was relatively short termed with little evidence of direct impact on Spanish Colonial material culture. In contrast, Hawaiian-style grass houses and outrigger canoes soon became recognized by American and later Japanese settlers to the Ogasawara islands as truly unique to that place and time. It is argued here that this cross-cultural and multi-ethnic phenomenon is not an isolated event in the history or prehistory of Micronesia or Remote Oceania. The Mariana archipelago was initially settled by Austronesian and Southeast Asian peoples well before Hawai‘i and probably before the Ogasawara Islands. However, many of these islands were subsequently repopulated by European, American, Carolinian, and Asian peoples during which time CHamorus and Hawaiians actively participated in what was the greatest diaspora over open water on the planet until the age of air travel.Item type: Item , A Pictogram from Anakuakala (Pāhoa Cave) in the Puna District, Hawai‘i Island(2025-09-05) Scheffler, Timothy E.This paper describes a unique archaeological feature discovered during the emergency survey of a cave near Pāhoa Town on the Island of Hawaiʻi. The survey was undertaken during the 2014 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano. The feature is a pictogram in the form of a geometric design, and it is of unquestionable anthropogenic origin. Two radiocarbon dates suggest a late pre-contact origin. The feature consists of multiple elements, including slabs of rock and long rootlets collected from elsewhere in the cave. It is surrounded by patches of concentrated ash. The feature rests on a bare pāhoehoe floor in the dark recesses of the fortified cave. A case is made for the importance of the cave at the landscape level. The image is compared with the tradition of Hawaiian hei (string figures) and with a petroglyph from Kaho‘olawe Island, with which it shares graphic elements. These analogies, along with the culture-historical and physical context of the feature, are combined in an attempt to place it within a broader discussion of anthropological archaeology and social production in pre-contact Hawai‘i.Item type: Item , Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005-2020: Regional Journal Results(2025-09-05) Donovan, Caroline; Kahn, Jennifer G.This study examines ongoing issues of gender disparity in archaeology, a maledominated academic profession, from a U.S.-based perspective. Specifically, we investigate the link between gender and the publishing of archaeological research in Oceania among a broad cross section of archaeologists: those working in academia, museums, the private sector, and Cultural Resource Management (CRM), federal agencies, research institutes, those working for Indigenous Pacific Islander communities, and those working independently. After providing a general discussion of gendered studies in archaeology globally within the discipline, and then more specifically in Oceania, we turn to our own results illustrating authorship across nine regional Oceania archaeology journals over a 16 years (2005–2020). We examine how these publications correlate with first-author gender and with professional affiliation. By linking scholarly publications, gender, and professional affiliation, we explore the professional makeup of archaeology in Oceania and how that professional demography impacts publication. We end with a short discussion outlining what steps can be made moving forward to understand the imbalance in gendered publishing patterns in Oceania.Item type: Item , Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2023–2024 Field Report: Making Public Archaeology Less about Archaeology and More about Community Engagement(2025-09-05) Shepardson et al., Britton L.As a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) provides experiential education to teenage students on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) as well as in other locations across South America. Since 2003, TAO has hosted 18 programs on Rapa Nui, two programs in the Sacred Valley of Perú, and two programs in Patagonia National Park (Chile). Preparations are underway for the first program implementation in San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) in October of 2024.Item type: Item , Patrick Vinton Kirch with Mark D. McCoy. Feathered Gods and Fishhooks, The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023.(2025-09-05) Rieth, Timothy M.Book Review