Hostname: page-component-66644f4456-2xp4c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-12T17:49:57.714Z Has data issue: true hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Archaeological Hoax in the Marquesas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carlyle S. Smith
Carlyle S. Smith*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

At the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology I presented a paper entitled “Excavations on Hiva Oa, 1963.” In the abstract distributed at the meetings I stated (p. 41) that a decorated potsherd which appeared to be a fragment of a ceramic disk had been found at the Pekia site on Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands. I also stated, “Thus far no parallels are known in Polynesia. A comparative study is in progress.” I can now report that the specimen is of modern manufacture. This came to light upon the return of Dr. Yoshiko Sinoto to Hiva Oa on May 21, 1964.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , January 1965 , pp. 355
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)