@article{e3f711abc0f14b388953244131752b7e,
title = "A micro‐geoarchaeological investigation of a cultivation pit (maite) on Teti'aroa atoll, Central‐East Polynesia",
abstract = "Cultivation pits represented the principal form of horticultural features developed by past atoll communities in Central-East Polynesia (CEP), and they are still utilised on some atolls in Oceania. The majority of information about the use of cultivation pits in CEP derives from ethnographic and preliminary archaeological investigations. The lack of excavations with rigorous stratigraphic sampling and analyses has constrained the recovery of environmental information associated with these agro-technical features. Using a combination of geoarchaeological techniques, including field observations, physico-chemical analyses and soil micromorphology, this study focuses on sedimentary deposits from a cultivation pit (MAITE-01) on Teti{\textquoteright}aroa atoll, in the Society Islands. We demonstrate how micro-geoarchaeological investigations can advance research and offer new interpretations to study past human interactions within environments long considered “lost causes” to detailed archaeostratigraphic interpretation. High-resolution geoarchaeological techniques reveal details about pit construction and provide indirect evidence of the integration of human-animal interaction into the horticultural system.",
keywords = "micro-archaeology, horticulture, cultivation pits, Polynesia, atolls",
author = "Elisa Scorsini and Tim Denham and Emilie Dotte‐Sarout and Yannick Devos and Luc Vrydaghs and Guillaume Molle",
note = "Funding Information: This project was primarily funded through the CIRAP's Tetiaroa Archaeological program and the Seeley Foundation. It receives additional funding support from Molle's ARC DECRA (DE190100187), the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme du Pacifique (UAR2503, CNRS\u2010UPF) and ANR project PASTAtolls (ANR\u201023\u2010CE27\u20100020). We are grateful to the Tetiaroa Society for their logistical support on the atoll. For their help in the field, we wish to thank V.A. Rurua and more specifically A. Hermann for his collaboration and support during the excavation and sampling of the . We also thank Adelaide Petrographics for assistance with thin section preparation and the two anonymous reviewers and editors whose comments helped us improve our manuscript. ES would also like to thank other researchers who directly or indirectly contributed to offer training and some interpretation for geochemical analyses and micromorphological identification; B. Shaw, G. Clark, J. Latimer, S. Cain and A. Minicucci for helping with the particle size analyses and geochemical analyses, as well as L. Prossor, E. Grono, G. Traversat, L. Montaggioni, E. Nutman and I. Claringbold. maite Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 The Author(s). Archaeology in Oceania published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of University of Sydney.",
year = "2024",
month = dec,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1002/arco.5345",
language = "English",
volume = "00 ",
pages = "1--25",
journal = "Archaeology in Oceania",
issn = "1834-4453",
publisher = "Wiley , John Wiley & Sons,",
number = "2024",
}