TheRima RauBurial Cave, Atiu, Cook Islands
| Autor: | Fieke Neuman, Nancy Tayles, Hallie R. Buckley, Angela L. Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cave survey
010506 paleontology Archeology History geography geography.geographical_feature_category Mortuary Practice 060102 archaeology Ecology 06 humanities and the arts Coral reef Oceanography 01 natural sciences Archaeology Prehistory Cave painting Cave Bioarchaeology 0601 history and archaeology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 11:68-88 |
| ISSN: | 1556-1828 1556-4894 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15564894.2015.1050131 |
| Popis: | Despite the interment of the dead in burial caves being a common prehistoric mortuary practice on the makatea (fossilized limestone coral reef) islands of Polynesia, detailed and scientific recording of these burial caves is rare. Te Ana Rima Rau—“The Cave of the Five Hundred”—is a burial cave on the makatea island of Atiu, in the southern Cook Islands, Polynesia. The Rima Rau cave environment represents an ideal, confined area in which spatial analysis of human remains can potentially reveal specific prehistoric mortuary practices and behaviors. The aim of this report is to detail a novel approach to cave recording that combines traditional cave survey methods with bioarchaeological strategies. The main axis of Te Ana Rima Rau is approximately 28 meters long and from the complex network of three main chambers and several side passages, the cave floor has roughly an area of 190 m2. More than 600 disarticulated and commingled skeletal elements were identified, and the skeletal remains interned with... |
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