Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific

Montaggioni, Lucien F.; Pons‐Branchu, Edwige; Fournier, François; Martin-Garin, Bertrand; Dapoigny, Arnaud; Marié, Lionel; Salvat, Bernard

doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104532

Earth-Science Reviews

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104532

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Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific

Lucien F. Montaggioni

Edwige Pons‐Branchu

François Fournier

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Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia

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Hua

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Archaeology in Oceania

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In 1976, Yosihiko H. Sinoto conducted extensive archaeological survey and excavations on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago as part of a Japanese, multi‐disciplinary expedition led by Prof. Sachiko Hatanaka. Primarily excavating three marae and four habitation sites totalling ∼180 m2, more than 25000 vertebrate remains were recovered. We report the jidentification and analysis of the fauna and contrast the inventories from secular and sacred contexts inferring the ritual use of pig, dog, turtle and tuna (Scombridae), as well as identifying relatively larger parrotfish (Scaridae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae), the Humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) and sharks/rays (Elasmobranchii) on marae. With a suite of 11 new AMS age determinations, we report the first directly dated precontact records for pig and dog and anchor the marae chronology possibly beginning in the thirteenth century. The 800 calBP dates imply that at least one of the Tuamotu atolls may have emerged nearly two centuries prior to the hypothesised ‘cross‐over’ date of 600 BP. Consequently, the earliest chronology of atoll emergence along the 1000 km length of the Tuamotus might vary, thus providing landscapes for human colonisation at slightly different times which has implications for the speed and tempo of colonisation.

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Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia

Weisler,

Rogers,

Hua

et al. 2024

Archaeology in Oceania

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Low average shoreline change rate in 51 years on the raised Aldabra Atoll

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Lack

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A Renaissance of Atoll Ecology

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Bunbury,

Young

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Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

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The approximately 320 atolls of the world, scattered across the tropical oceanic basins, constitute a unique type of ecosystem in that they are each an integrated unit consisting of island, coral reef, and lagoon components. Atolls have a complex geology, ecology, and biogeography, which can be fully appreciated only by transcending the classic boundary thinking of marine and terrestrial realms. The atolls we observe today were shaped by Quaternary sea-level fluctuations, which imposed strong environmental filters on their communities. As entirely biogenic, reef-borne structures, the islands of atolls depend upon marine productivity, which catalyzes island community assembly. Island species communities exist in complex dynamic equilibria with the surrounding oceanographic conditions. Energy fluxes and element cycles of the atoll system readily cross habitat boundaries and create a productive, diverse, and biomass-rich ecosystem on land and underwater. Past human disturbances and future global change put atolls at the forefront of conservation and ecological restoration.

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Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific

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References 172 publications

Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia

Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia

Low average shoreline change rate in 51 years on the raised Aldabra Atoll

A Renaissance of Atoll Ecology

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