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Rice as a prehistoric valuable in the Mariana Islands, Micronesia

Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson · Gillian B. Thompson · Darlene R. Moore

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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

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ALTHOUGH HISTORIC and linguistic sources, reviewed below, indicate the indig-enous Mariana Islanders of Micronesia, whose descendants are known as Chamor-ros (Chamorus), grew rice before initial Western contact in the early 1500s, it is not known when or why rice cultivation began in these islands-the only case in Remote Oceania. 1 Recent excavations in western Guam have confirmed the late prehistoric presence of domesticated rice (Oryza sativa L.) in rare pottery sherds, and the nature and timing of all the available evidence-from archaeology, palaeoethnobotany, linguistics, and history-suggest a solution to this puzzle. Rice may have been adopted as a "valuable " rather than as a staple, for use in ceremo-nial exchanges that marked the late prehistoric period. The accumulating evi-dence for the late prehistoric cultivation of rice in the Marianas is summarized below, and an explanation-sketch is offered for the adoption of rice as a ceremo-nial food. RECENT FINDS In a sealed primary cultural deposit at Tumon Bay, western Guam (13 ° 30 ' N,

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