Marshall Islands Archaeology
An Eclectic Bibliography

compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann





Adams, W.H. & R.E.Ross
1989Progress Report of Intensive Archaeological Survey of Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report to the Micronesian Endowment for Historical Preservation. Ms. on file, Alele Museum, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.


Adams, W.M., R.E.Ross & B.L.Krause
1990Archaeological Survey of Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report prepared for the Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation. March 10, 1990.


Athens, J.S
1985 Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of six islets at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Appendix prepared for Sea Engineering Inc., In: Draft Environmental Impact Statement/US Department of the Army Permit Application , Discharge of Fill material for the Kwajalein Atoll Causeway Project. Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Fort Shafter, Hawaii: U.S.Army Corps of Engineers.


Bartsch, W.H
1986Wreck Discovery: Unknown Maloelap. After the Battle, 54. London: Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd. Pp. 28-41.


Cordy, Ross H
1979Majuro's historic properties and their management. Manuscript, Historic Preservation Office, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Saipan, Marianas
Part of the report was incorporated into McCoy 1981.


Craib, John
1989Archaeology reconnaissance survey and sampling, U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll facility (USAKA), Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Report prepared by J.Craib with contributions by T.Bonhomme, Joyce Clevenger, Nancy Farrell, Orrin Sage Report submitted to U.S.Army Engineer District, Honolulu, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.


Denfeld, D.C
1980An Historic site survey of Kwajalein Missile Range, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Pacific Studies Institute, Agana, Guam. Contract No. DACW-79-C-0028, P00005. (not seen).

1981Japanese fortifications and other military structures in the Central Pacific. Micronesian Archaeological Survey Report No. 9. Saipan: Historic Preservation Office, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.


Dye, T.S
1987Archaeological survey and test excavations on Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands. In: T.Dye (ed.), Marshall Islands Archaeology. Pacific Anthropological Records 38. Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Pp. 271-399


Lee, M.W
1984Survey Report, Joachim deBrum House, Likiep Atoll, Marshall Islands. Ms. on file, Alele Museum, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The report provides an assessment of the deBrum's house on Likiep, which has been nominated as a national Site with the US National Register of Historic Places.


Look, David W. & Dirk H.R.Spennemann
1996In a tropical marine climate: Conservation Management of Historic Metals. APT Bulletin 27(1-2), 60-68.
A severe tropical climate and a lack of maintenance have resulted in huge inventory of World War II (WWII) sites and objects in the Pacific Area (in both US territories and in the new republics of Freely Associated States of Micronesia) in an advanced, accelerated state of deterioration. How can we assist the Micronesians in preserving a brief moment in time when two foreign nations fought a war on their homeland? The commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the WWII has come and gone. Although the war has not been forgotten, the current hard economic situation in the US, Micronesia, and elsewhere has not been the ideal time to secure the preservation of these vulnerable resources. Since we do not have adequate funds to preserve these irreplaceable cultural resources, what can we do to slow the rate of deterioration?

Rainbird, Paul
1994 . Prehistory in the Northwest Tropical Pacific: The Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands. Journal of world prehistory, 1998(3) : 293-nnn.


Riley, T.L
1987Archaeological survey and testing, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands.In: T.Dye (ed.), Marshall Islands Archaeology. Pacific Anthropological Records 38. Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Pp.


Rosendahl, P
1977Archaeological reconnaissance survey of the dock construction site project area at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands District, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Prepared for Dames & Moore. B.P.Bishop Museum Ms. 033177.


Rosendahl, P.H
1977 Archaeology in Eastern Micronesia: reconnaissance survey in the Marshall and Eastern Caroline Islands. A completion-of-Fieldwork Progress Report on the Kelton-Bishop Museum Expedition to Eastern Micronesia. Bishop Museum Ms. No. 080577; Department of Anthropology, Bernice P.Bishop Museum.


Rosendahl, P.H
1979 Archaeology in Eastern Micronesia: reconnaissance survey in the Marshall and Eastern Caroline Islands. Final Report on the Louise L. Kelton-Bishop Museum Expedition to Eastern Micronesia. Prepared for Historic Preservation Office, Trust Territorry of the Pacific Islands, Saipan, Mariana Islands. Ms. No. 9-100179.


Rosendahl, P.H
1987 Archaeology in Eastern Micronesia: reconnaissance survey in the Marshall Islands. In: T.Dye (ed.), Marshall Islands Archaeology. Pacific Anthropological Records 38. Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Pp. 17-168.


Ryenkevich, M.A
1981 Traders, Teachers and Soldiers: An anthropological study of Colonial Era sites on Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. Micronesian Archaeological Survey Report 8. Saipan: Historic Preservation Office, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.


Sage Associates
1989Geo-archaeological study, Kwajalein Atoll, Ennugarret Islet, Eniwetak Islet, Legan Islet. (Appendix A).In: J.Craib, Archaeology reconnaissance survey and sampling, U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll facility (USAKA), Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Report submitted to U.S.Army Engineer District, Honolulu, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.


Shun, K & J.S.Athens
1987Archaeological Investigations on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Paper presented at the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, University of Guam, Micronesian Archaeological Conference. September 9-12, 1987 (not seen).


Spennemann, Dirk H.R.
1989Report on the skeletal remains from the manshelter of Barracks Building A, Torwa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 51 (1989). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1989Report on a human femur from the south-western coast of Torwa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 52 (1989). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1989 Review and assessment of Sections 3.8 and 4.8 (Archaeological, Historical, and Cultural Resources) of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement Proposed Actions at U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll U.S. Strategic Defense Command, June 1989. Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Ms. on file. Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. 33pp.

1989Archaeological site management of the historic cemetery MI-Mj-20, Laura, Majro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office, Majro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Ms on file at the Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majro, Republic of the Marshall Islands 96960
The report describes the administraive pocess undertaken when a series of human bones which was found eroding from the historic cemetery MI-Mj-20 at the tip of Laura Beach. In the event, the cemetery was recirded and then relocated to an area, where to erosion will not affect the integrity of the cemetery.

1990Osteological analysis of human remains from site MI-Mj-20, found at Laura Beach, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 53 (1990). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1990 Predictive model of the expansion of the inhabited area on Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report OTIA-TAG-MAR-42-10/90.
1990Predictive model of the expansion of cemeteries on Majuro Atoll until the year 2010. Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.1990.
1992Makm…k. Notes on the occurrence, utilisation, and importance of Polynesian Arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides) in the Marshall Islands. Republic of the Marshall Islands Ministry of Internal Affairs / Ministry of Social Services Occasional Paper N½ 1. Majuro, Marshall Islands: Ministries of Internal Affairs and Social Services.
1992Marshallese Tattoos. Marshall Islands Culture And History. Series C: Traditional Skills and Practices. Volume N½ 1. Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands: Historic Preservation Office. 233pp.
1992Differential representation of human skeletal remains in eroded and redeposited coastal deposits: A case study from the Marshall Islands. International Journal of Anthropology 7 (1), 1-8.
1992. Cultural Resource Managment Plan for Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. 2 Vols. Washington: U.S.Department of Interior, Office of Territorial and International Affairs.
1992Historic Demography of Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Journal of the Pacific Society (Tokyo) 15(1), 1992, (1)-152 - (21)-132
1993Ennaanin EttoÕEssays on the Marshallese Past. Marshall Islands Culture And History. Series F: Technical Studies and Miscellaneous. Volume N½ 1. Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands: Historic Preservation Office. 312pp
1994Excavations of a prehistoric cemetery on Majuro Island, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Johnstone Centre for Parks, Recreation and Heritage Report N½ 13 - The Johnstone Centre for Parks, Recreation and Heritage, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW., 1994
1994Traditional arrowroot production and utilisation in the Marshall Islands. Journal of Ethnobiology 14 (2).
1995Physical reminders of the British-Japanese Armament Trade in Micronesia. Journal of the Pacific Society (Tokyo) 18 (3), 117-130
1995Population control measures in traditional Marshallese Culture and their implications for today. Asian Culture (Asian-Pacific Culture) Quarterly 23 (1), 19-30
1995Settlement patterns and typhoon hazard on Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Australian Journal of Disaster Management 10(3), 49-50
1996Dreading the next wave: non-traditional settlement patterns and typhoon threats on contemporary Majuro, Marshall Islands. Environmental Management 20(3), 337-348.
1997 Geomorphological survey of Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. in: Adams, William, H., Ross, Richard, E., Krause, Elisabeth, L. and Spennemann, Dirk H.R. (eds), Micronesian Resources Study, Marshall Islands Archaeology. The Japanese Airbase on Taroa Island, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 1937-1945: an evaluation of World War II Remains., San Francisco, Calif. : Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation, US National Park Service. Pp. 107-127.
As part of the Micronesian Cultural Resources study a brief geomorphological survey was carried out on Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, to assess the rate of shoreline modification and the implications on the management of cultural heritage sites. Drawing on data derived from physical survey work in 1989 and historic data provided by the bomb target maps and aerial photographs taken by US forces during World War II it was found that substantial shoreline change had occurred at the lagoonal side of Taroa and the ocean side of Eoon-epje, and islet south of Taroa, now joined by a causeway. The construction of the causeway as part of the Japanese base development was seen as causal to the erosion because the current patterns had changed with the closure of the former reef channel between Taroa and Eoon-epje.
1997. Cultural heritage management of unexploded ammunition. CRM Bulletin 21(8), 48-51.
The paper reviews the issues of unexploded ordnance removal at and near heritage sites and provides options for action, aimed at safe guarding life and property of visitors and heritage managers while at the same time not unduly impairing the heritage items.

1997 Report on the skeletal remains from the personel shelter (site 115) and from the Reuteräs Island, Shore Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands in: Adams, William, H., Ross, Richard, E., Krause, Elisabeth, L. and Spennemann, Dirk H.R. (eds), Micronesian Resources Study, Marshall Islands Archaeology. The Japanese Airbase on Taroa Island, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 1937-1945: an evaluation of World War II Remains., San Francisco, Calif. : Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation, US National Park Service. Pp. 128-131.
During the survey for the Micronesian Cultural Resources Study small remains of human bone were encountered inside the concrete anti-bomb personnel shelter associated with barracks building A of the Japanese airbase on Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll. The report provides a description of the bone fragments, which were too small to yield any meaningful measurements.

1999 British Naval Heritage in Micronesia-The coastal defense guns of the Marshalls, Pohnpei and ChuukCoast Defense Study Group Journal ., 13(1), 34-56.
Paper outlining the nature and origin of Japanese coastal defense guns emplaced on the atolls of the Marshall Islands. The vast majority of the guns stem from British warships which had been bought by the Japanese in prior to World War I and which had to be decommissioned following the Washington Treaty of 1922.

1999No room for the dead. Burial practices in a constrained environment. Anthropos 94(1), 35-56.

Spennemann, Dirk H.R. & Ambrose, Wal R.
1997Floating obsidian and its implications on the interpretation of Pacific prehistory. Antiquity 71, 188-193A piece of pumice encountered among other drift material on Nadikdik Atoll, Marshall Islands, was found to have a large chunk of obsidian attached to it. As the atoll had been devastated by a typhoon and associated storm surge in 1905 the deposition of the piece must have occurred by sea-borne transport in the last 90 years. The paper discusses this and similar incidence of raw material distributed by ocean drift. While occurrence of obsidian in far-flung places is likely to have been caused by human transport, sea-borne dispersal cannot be excluded offhand.

Spennemann, Dirk H.R. & Look, David W.
1994Impact of tropical vegetation on historical cultural resources. A photographic case study from the Marshall Islands. The Johnstone Centre for Parks, Recreation and Heritage Report N½ 18 - The Johnstone Centre for Parks, Recreation and Heritage, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW., 1994

Streck jr., Ch. F
1986Interim report: Archaeological Investigations on Eneu Island, Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Supplementary Document No.1, Appendix B. Berkeley, CA: Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee.

1987Trip report for Unsheduled Emergency Archaeological Assistance at USAKA, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 17-18 March and 1-3 April. Memorandum. US Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. 21 April 1987. (not seen).

1987Historic Preservation Recommendations for USAKA, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Memorandum for Record, US Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. 9 June 1987.(not seen).

1987Trip report-Site Visit for Archaeological Contract management on Kwajalein Island and Archaeological reconnaissance Survey of Lagan and Roi-Namur, USAKAS, July 20-28, 1987. Memorandum for Record, US Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. 13 August 1987.(not seen).

1987Scope of work for archaeological reconnaissance survey and sampling at the U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll facility (USAKA), Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. CEPOD-ED-PV. 30 November 1987. Copy on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Måjro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

1987Archaeological Survey. Part 3, Appendix B, Interim Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the rehabilitation of soil at Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee Supplementary Document No. 2. Berkeley: Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee.

1989Sections 3.8. and 4.8 Archaeological, Historical and Cultural Resources. In: Draft Environmental Impact Statement Proposed Actions at U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll June 1989. Huntsville, Alabama: Department of the Army, U.S. Strategic Defense Command.

1990Prehistoric settlement in eastern Micronesia: Archaeology from Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Micronesica Supplement 2, 247-260.


Walker, A.T., T.K.Donham & P.H.Rosendahl
1989Archaeological monitoring proposed Laura Waterline Project, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Project Report 558-100289. Prepared for Historic Preservation Office c/o Alele Museum, P.O. Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Hilo, Hawaii: Paul H.Rosendahl, PhD. Inc.


Walker, A.T. & P.H.Rosendahl
1989Interim report: summary of findings, and general significance assessments and recommended general treatments. Archaeological monitoring proposed Laura Waterline Project, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Project Report 558-030389. Prepared for Historic Preservation Office c/o Alele Museum, P.O. Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Hilo, Hawaii: Paul H.Rosendahl, PhD. Inc.


Watanabe, F.K
1986Archaeological reconnaissance for Family Housing Dwellings, FY 1987-1989 Increments: Kwajalein Missile Range, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall islands. Prepared for U.S.Army Ballistic Missile Defense System Command. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu Engineer District, Fort Shafter, Hawaii: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.


WESTEC
1988 WESTEC Services Inc, Archaeological reconnaissance Survey and sampling at the U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoill Facility (USAKA), Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands:Micronesia. (RFP DACA83-88-R-0008). Volume I - Technical proposal. Proposal for Professional Services, submittted to U.S.Army Engineer District Honolulu, Fort Shafter. 22 February 1988. San Diego, CA: WESTEC Services Inc.




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