Download or read book Substantive Evidence of Initial Habitation in the Remote Pacific: Archaeological Discoveries at Unai Bapot in Saipan, Mariana Islands written by Mike T. Carson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones.