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This study compares the archaeological remains of one Latte Period community in an inland region of southern Guam to broader patterns of Chamorro settlement observed on the coast in the late 1600s and subsequently recorded by archaeologists in the 20th century. Examination of a site named the Lost River Village revealed pronounced differences in housing scale and spatial patterning that appear to have developed in situ over the entire length of the Latte Period. This conclusion was based on selective radiocarbon dating, suggesting that social status distinctions between inland and coastal inhabitants may have been exaggerated by Spanish chroniclers, and that permanent inland occupation was not just a late phenomenon in Chamorro prehistory as earlier proposed.
