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Nan Madol Bibliography

Athens, J.S. 1980. Archaeological investigations at Nan Madol: islet maps and surface artifacts. Pacific Studies Institute, Agana, Guam.

Athens, J.S. 1980. Pottery from Nan Madol, Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society 89: 95-99.

Athens, J.S. 1981. Discovery and Archaeological Investigation of Nan Madol, Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands: An Annotated Bibliography. Micronesian Archaeological Survey, Saipan.

Athens, J.S. 1983.. The Megalithic Ruins of Nan Madol. Natural History 92(12): 50-62.

Athens, J.S. 1984. Surface Artefact Distributions at the Nan Madol Site: a Preliminary Asssessment of Spatial Patterning. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 6: 129-153.

Athens, J.S. 1990. Nan Madol Pottery, Pohnpei. Micronesica Supplement 2:17-32.

Athens, J.S. 2007. The Rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei. In Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture. Anderson, Green, Leach, eds., Pp. 191-208. Otago University Press, Dunedin.

Ayres, W.S., A.E. Haun and C. Severance 1979. Ponape Archaeological Survey: 1978 Research. University of Oregon, Eugene.

Ayres, W.S., A. Haun, and R. Mauricio 1983. Nan Madol Archaeology: 1981 Survey and Excavations.

Ayres, W.S. 1983. Archaeology at Nan Madol, Ponape, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 4: 135-142.

Ayres, W.S., G. Goles and N. Wright 1988. Nan Madol Archaeological Fieldwork: 1988 Interim Report.

Ayres, W.S. 1993. Nan Madol Archaeological Fieldwork: Final Report 1987-1990.

Ayres, W.S. 1992. New Research at Nan Madol, Micronesia. SAA Bulletin 10(5): 4-5.

Ayres, W.S., K. Seikel, and M. Levin 2009. Archaeological Remains at Angeir-Karian, Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, with Supplemental Studies at Sokehs and Temwen, Pohnpei. Eugene: Pohnpei Archaeological Survey Program, University of Oregon.

Ayres, W.S., A. Haun and R. Mauricio 1981 Nan Madol Archaeological Survey Phase II: Preliminary Report.

Bath, J., and J.S. Athens 1990. Prehistoric Social Complexity on Pohnpei: The Saudeleur to Nahnmwarki Transformation. Micronesica Supplement 2: 275-290.

Brandt, J. 1962. Nan Matol: Ancient Venice of Micronesia. Archaeology 15(2): 99- 107.

Bryson, R.U. 1989. Ceramics and spatial archaeology at Nan Madol, Pohnpei. PhD Thesis. University of Oregon, Eugene.

Campbell 1967. Island of Ascension. In American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Ward, ed. Vol 6: 126-139. The Gregg Press, Ridgewood, NJ.

Christian, F.W. 1899. The Caroline Islands: Travel in the See of the Little Lands. Methuen and Co., London.

Courier, H. 1967. Traces of Ancient Civilization Among the South Sea Islands. In American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Ward, ed. Vol. 6: 121-122. The Gregg Press, Ridgewood, NJ.

Fischer, J.L. 1964. The Abandonment of Nan Matol, Ancient Capital of Ponape. Micronesica 1(1&2): 49-54.

Game, P. 1999. The Enigma of Nan Madol. Geoaustralasia 21(3).

Gulick, L.H. 1859. Micronesia: The Ruins on Ponape, or Ascension Island. Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society 1(5): 129-137.

Hambruch, P. 1936. Results of the South Seas Expedition 1908-1910: Ponape Part 3. G. Thilenius, ed., De Gruyter & Co., Hamburg.

Hanlon, D. 1990. The Pleasure of Speculation and Conjecture: Early Euro-American Visions of Nan Madol and their Relevance to Post-Modern Archaeological Investigations. Micronesica Supplement 2: 99-116.

Jencks, C. 1970. Nan Madol. Kolonia: Ponape District Economic Development Office.

Kataoka, O. 1985. Midden Analysis of TP-1 at Wasau Site, Nan Madol: A Study of Pohnpeian Utilization of Marine Resources. Unpublished MA Thesis. Eugene: University of Oregon.

Leach, B.F., J.M. Davidson, and J.S. Athens 1987. Prehistoric Fishing at Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Caroline Islands. Archaeology Technical Report, National Museum of New Zealand.

Morrill, S.S. 1970. Ponape; where American colonialism confronts black magic, five kingdoms, and the mysterious ruins of Nan-Madol. San Francisco: Caldeon Press.

Nobel, J. 2010 Conversation: Land of the Flying Stones. Archaeology 63(3).

Petersen, G. 1995 Nan-madol Contested Landscape – Topography and Tradition in the Eastern Caroline Islands. Isla-A Journal of Micronesian Studies 3(1): 105-128.

Rainbird, P. 2007. The Role of Fishing Lure Shanks for the Past People of Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia. In Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture. A. Anderson, K. Green and F. Leach, eds. Pp. 217-226. Otago University Press, Dunedin.

Saxe, A., R. Allenson and S. Loughridge, 1980. The Nan Madol Area of Ponape: Researches into Bounding and Stabilizing an Ancient Administrative Center.

Seikel, K. 2011. Mortuary Contexts and Social Structure at Nan Madol, Pohnpei. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 6: 442-460.

Wahba, M., E. Emperiam, R. Lawrence 1992. Nan Madol preservation and management plan. Eugene: University of Oregon, Micronesia Program.