People and Culture in Oceania
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Excavations at Avarua (RAK-1): A Late Archaeological Assemblage from a Pearl Shell Workshop on Rakahanga, Northern Cook Islands
Anne Di Piazza
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2005 年 20 巻 p. 61-78

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Recent excavations on motu Te Kainga (RAK-1) on Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands revealed a prehistoric nucleated village dating from the 15th to the 17th centuries with abundant evidence of marine exploitation. Manufacture of pearl shell artefacts is well attested at the site. Pearl shell fishhooks as well as ornaments, identical to those used historically to decorate canoes, are the most common finished artefacts. No less than six classes of fishhook heads were recovered. Three of these (Classes 2,3,3; 2,3+4,3; 1,5,?) have not been reported elsewhere in the Cook Islands and appear to be local innovations. Two others (Classes 1,2,3; 2,2,3) are widespread in Archaic East Polynesian sites and have also been recovered from sites in the southern Cook Islands including Anai’o (MKE-1) on Mauke and Moturakau (MR-1) on Aitutaki. Class 1,3,3 is known from both Te Kainga and MKE-1, supporting the hypothesis that pearl shell or perhaps finished fishing gear was exchanged from Rakahanga-Manihiki to the southern Cook Islands, some 560 nm (1,000 km) away.

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