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<p>Feasting and gift giving in the ethnography, history, and archaeology of Native peoples in Southeast Asia and its islands in the Western Pacific are often given primacy in accounts of academic fieldwork. Some ethnohistorical accounts on the precontact and Spanish colonial Chamorro people indigenous to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia also mention similar behavior during the early Spanish-contact period and ensuing 300 years of colonial rule, which ended in 1898. Archaeological fieldwork and analyses of the pre-Latte and Latte periods in the archipelago, however, pay scant attention to the recognition of evidence of such events in the material record. Measures for evaluating aspects of feasting and gift giving at two prehistoric sites from Saipan in the Mariana archipelago that date between 500 B.C.E. and 1668 C.E. are presented.</p>

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Feasting and Gift Giving in Precontact and Spanish Colonial Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia

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    2026年5月15日

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  • Boyd Dixon,
  • Michael Dega

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Feasting and gift giving in the ethnography, history, and archaeology of Native peoples in Southeast Asia and its islands in the Western Pacific are often given primacy in accounts of academic fieldwork. Some ethnohistorical accounts on the precontact and Spanish colonial Chamorro people indigenous to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia also mention similar behavior during the early Spanish-contact period and ensuing 300 years of colonial rule, which ended in 1898. Archaeological fieldwork and analyses of the pre-Latte and Latte periods in the archipelago, however, pay scant attention to the recognition of evidence of such events in the material record. Measures for evaluating aspects of feasting and gift giving at two prehistoric sites from Saipan in the Mariana archipelago that date between 500 B.C.E. and 1668 C.E. are presented.