Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olof Håkansson - Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Description
Data set that contains information on archaeological remains of the pre historic settlement of the Letolo valley on Savaii on Samoa. It is built in ArcMap from ESRI and is based on previously unpublished surveys made by the Peace Corps Volonteer Gregory Jackmond in 1976-78, and in a lesser degree on excavations made by Helene Martinsson Wallin and Paul Wallin. The settlement was in use from at least 1000 AD to about 1700- 1800. Since abandonment it has been covered by thick jungle. However by the time of the survey by Jackmond (1976-78) it was grazed by cattle and the remains was visible. The survey is at file at Auckland War Memorial Museum and has hitherto been unpublished. A copy of the survey has been accessed by Olof Håkansson through Martinsson Wallin and Wallin and as part of a Masters Thesis in Archeology at Uppsala University it has been digitised.
Olof Håkansson has built the data base structure in the software from ESRI, and digitised the data in 2015 to 2017. One of the aims of the Masters Thesis was to discuss hierarchies. To do this, subsets of the data have been displayed in va
Language
English
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
Pre history – Historic time
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Samoa
Geographic description: Island of Savaii, SE coast, Valley of Letolo
Research area
HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Society
(INSPIRE topic categories)
Keywords
Martinsson-Wallin H. (ed.) 2007a Archaeology in Samoa. The Pulemelei Investigations, Archaeology in Oceania vol. 42 supplement, Sydney, University of Sydney
URN:
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331545
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Prehistoric remains of the settlement of Letolo on the Island of Savaii in Samoa in PolynesiaVersion 1.0
https://doi.org/10.5878/003012
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Data format / data structure
Geospatial
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olof Håkansson - Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Time period(s) investigated
Pre history – Historic time
Collection methodology
Compilation/Synthesis Transcription Content Coding
Type of archaeological remains