Abstract

The first Austronesian settlers at the site of San Roque in Saipan and the southern Mariana Islands began arriving sometime after 1500 BC in what is called the Early Pre-Latte Period. A comparison of San Roque to contemporaneous island sites reveals differences in cooking and habitation features, ceramic vessels and decorative styles, marine shell tools and ornaments, and settlement patterns that were apparent within and between islands and sites until the middle of the first millennium BC. Changes in sea level and natural resource availability then appear to have accompanied changes in material culture, when some coastal sites were abandoned or moved seaward, while other inhabitants moved inland with a more terrestrial subsistence strategy shared elsewhere in Micronesia.

摘要

在塞班岛和马里亚纳群岛南部的圣罗克遗址的第一批南岛定居者在公元前 1500 年之后的某个时间开始抵达，这就是所谓的早期前拉特时期。圣罗克与同时代岛屿遗址的比较揭示了烹饪和居住特征、陶瓷器皿和装饰风格、海洋贝壳工具和装饰品以及岛屿和遗址内部和之间明显的定居模式，直到公元前一千年中叶。海平面和自然资源可用性的变化似乎伴随着物质文化的变化，当一些沿海地区被遗弃或移向大海时，而其他居民则向内陆迁移，并采取与密克罗尼西亚其他地方共享的更多陆地生存策略。