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My projects on Rapa Nui have been designed
to produce archaeological evidence for detailed assessment of prehistoric
subsistence--both faunal and floral dietary remains and subsistence strategies--and
ethnoarchaeological perspective on resource use, especially fishing, but
also cultivation and animal husbandry. A series of rock shelters
and open sites in various locations around the island were excavated.
My co-workers in the field studies included Juan Haoa P., Joel Hucke A.,
Mario Tuki A. , Ricardo Leon Salazar, Jorge Pakarati, Tita Hito, Craig
McNamara, and Michael Beede. Food remains were carefully recovered
and have been analyzed in stages at the University of Oregon archaeological
laboratories. Small shellfish and fish represent the typical
dietary remains.
Recently, Joan Wozniak, a graduate student
at the University of Oregon has conducted field studies of early agricultural
and settlement sites. She is looking mostly at evidence of horticultural
practices preserved in field systems as well as in plant macrofossil remains.
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