Niue Island Archaeological Survey |
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Alalima Alofi appeared artifacts basalt adze head beach gravel bodies burial caves bush calcite canoes Canterbury Museum Cave 5D cave floor centimetres high Cook Islands Cook's coral limestone culture disturbed Enclosure 3D Enclosure Oval European evidence excavation fairly Fakahili Falepipi mound Fetau Figure fossil shells Foulua groove histories of Niue human bones indicate land crabs large stones limestone Loeb low stone mandible Maori Matalave material McEwen metres metres high metres long metres wide midden millimetres missionaries molar natural Niue Island Niuean Niuean language obtained ornaments Pacific Paluki enclosure Paluki North pendant pile placed stones plants Platform 2B Platform Subrectangular Polynesian prehistoric probably Pupuia radiocarbon dates Rectangular remains rocks Samoa shape side skeleton skull slabs smaller stones Society Islands soil species specimens stalagmite stone burial platform stone platform structures suggests surface survey Toloa Tonga tooth-shaped traditions Tridacna shell TUAPA Tukuofe Vaiea wall whale-tooth white cowrie Zealand