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Recent and Current Archaeological Research on Moen Island, Truk

Patricia L. Parker, Thomas F. King

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T RUK LAGOON AND THE outer atolls of Truk State have seen a good deal ofanthropological research since World War II, but the archaeology of the areawas virtually unknown until the last decade. Mahony and Gosda (Gosda 1958) inspected and briefly reported several prehistoric sites on Moen Island in 1954-1955, but the first fairly systematic surveys to be reported, at least in the western literature, were those of Clune in the 1970s on Moen and several other islands (Clune

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T RUK LAGOON AND THE outer atolls of Truk State have seen a good deal ofanthropological research since World War II, but the archaeology of the areawas virtually unknown until the last decade. Mahony and Gosda (Gosda 1958) inspected and briefly reported several prehistoric sites on Moen Island in 1954-1955, but the first fairly systematic surveys to be reported, at least in the western literature, were those of Clune in the 1970s on Moen and several other islands (Clune

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T RUK LAGOON AND THE outer atolls of Truk State have seen a good deal ofanthropological research since World War II, but the archaeology of the areawas virtually unknown until the last decade. Mahony and Gosda (Gosda 1958) inspected and briefly reported several prehistoric sites on Moen Island in 1954-1955, but the first fairly systematic surveys to be reported, at least in the western literature, were those of Clune in the 1970s on Moen and several other islands (Clune

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