Maritime Interregional Interaction in Micronesia: Deciphering Multi-group Contacts and Exchange Systems Through Time

Fitzpatrick, Scott M. (March 2008). "Maritime Interregional Interaction in Micronesia: Deciphering Multi-group Contacts and Exchange Systems Through Time". Journal Of Anthropological Archaeology. 27 (1): 131–147. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2007.12.002. ISSN 0278-4165.

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Abstract: Recent theoretical perspectives focusing on interregional interaction can help explain the evolution of western Micronesian societies. Data from ethnohistoric accounts, oral traditions, and more recently, archaeological investigations, document the interactions between culturally and linguistically distinct island groups in the northwest tropical Pacific. Here, I look at the nature and emergence of these interaction networks between the islands of Yap and Palau in the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia and the implications they had for transforming indigenous lifeways, exchange systems, and sociopolitics. In particular, I discuss a major facet of these interaction spheres—the Yapese quarrying of their famous stone ‘‘money” disks in the Palauan archipelago.

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