THE vast Pacific Ocean was for many very old island communities what a Nile River was to Egypt a source of life.
Dr. James M. Bayman, an archaeologist as well as professor during a University of Hawaii during Manoa, pronounced there is abounding justification which very old Chamorros were intensely resourceful people who easily adopted to their sea environment.
Bayman conducted a investigate upon a aftermath of Spanish colonialism as well as Latte domicile classification in Chamorro Society.
UH as well as a University of Guam mutually undertook a project, according to Dr. Hiro Kurashina, an archaeologist as well as emeritus executive of a Micronesian Area Research Center of UOG.
This is very critical as well as poignant in which this is a initial time which a UOG worked with a noted archaeologist, Dr. Bayman. Were trying to educate a next era of archaeologists. To sight a internal Chamorro people as well as other students so which they can do investigate per a history of a region, Kurashina told a Variety after a open harangue upon Tuesday during American Memorial Park.
Bayman, who authored countless books about archaeology, pronounced there have been sure parallelisms in between a very old Chamorro as well as Egyptian societies notwithstanding their different environments.
He pronounced if very old Egypt had pyramids, a very old Chamorros had Latte stones.
I would say its certainly during par with any society, he added, referring to very old Chamorros.
The Latte stones were used in a very old times to support domicile structures. Theres additionally justification which they were used as tombs.
Living in a sea setting, Chamorros used Tridacna shells as tools, low-pitched instrument as well as even containers, Bayman said.
They were intensely resourceful in adapting to their maritime environment, he added. The actuality which they had buildings with multi-functions showed how beautiful they were.
I would goal which anybody in a community, both Chamorro as well as non-Chamorro, better appreciate a abounding prehistory of a Marianas. In sure things, we can only learn by archaeology, because a Spanish they were a initial Europeans to come after Magellan in this partial of a Pacific a Spanish records were incomplete, sporadic as well as biased in a small cases, as well as so archaeology offers a most appropriate goal of filling in those small pieces as well as information, Bayman said.
His study, which lonesome two diagonally opposite Latte buildings inside of a singular Spanish-period village in a Ritidian Unit of a Guam National Wildlife Refuge, indicated which a normal Chamorro households enclosed multiple buildings so which sure made at home activities were spatially segregated.
Bayman pronounced a Chamorro society domicile classification shared similarities with ancestral Polynesian society.
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