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.
Géographie, contexte politique et héritage
Géographie historique
The site near Fare spans adjoining land tracts and a changing wet coastal setting. The regional marker does not locate protected deposits for access.
Organisation politique
Household work and marine economies are visible; a named state or centralized island authority is not demonstrated by these early deposits.
Contexte contemporain
Local authorities and research partners sustain heritage work. Later religious landscapes and living communities must not be reduced to one early assemblage.
The 2019 study uses new short-lived samples from a lower cultural layer, with explicit stratigraphic limits.
The zooarchaeological study examines particular excavated areas, not the diet of every island resident.
Museum research discusses uprights and later structures without making visual resemblance a secure date.
Uma cronologia breve e documentada
Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.
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Early dated occupation
The cited model supports an early second-millennium context rather than an exact arrival year.
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Rescue excavations
Development exposed material and triggered investigations of Vaitoʻotia and Faʻahia.
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Chronology reassessed
The publication questioned earlier settlement arguments reliant on inbuilt age.
Culture et langue en contexte
Langues mentionnées dans ce profil
- Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.
Famille linguistique: 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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Sources utilisées pour cette page
Prefer Pacific heritage institutions, Indigenous and community-linked organizations, accountable excavation projects, and peer-reviewed research. Register HTTPS sources, not Wikipedia. Institutional records can contain older dates or interpretations and are compared with dated research rather than treated as timeless authority.
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Polynesian Wayfinding
Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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C2
Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record
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C3
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997
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C4
Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island
Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed radiocarbon study · 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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C9
Echoing Wahi Kūpuna
Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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C10
Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe
Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02
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C11
Wairau, List No. 9561
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record
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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
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S2
Prehistoric Fishing at Fa'ahia, Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Persée · Primary zooarchaeological study · 1998
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S3
When and how did the marae structure develop?
Kon-Tiki Museum · Institutional heritage resource · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026