Figure 5. One of the Freycinet Expedition’s illustrations showing titiyas being prepared on the right and cooked on a kommat elevated over a fire (left), courtesy of the Guam Public Library System.
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The prehistoric materials recovered from archaeological investigations at old Pago Village include Latte Period pottery, stone and shell tools, bone tools, sling stones, and shell ornaments (Moore 2007). The historical account of Fray Juan Pobre (Driver 1989), who jumped ship when it stopped near Rota in 1602, indicates that Sancho, one of the survivors of the galleon Santa Margarita which had wrecked near Rota in 1601, was living with a Chamorro family in Pago. Upon hearing the news that two Spaniards were on Rota, Sancho and other Pago residents set sail for that island. They landed on Rota’s north coast at the village of Guaco (also Guata, Guato, see Butler 1988:106) where the Pago people had connections (Driver 1989:30). Given the apparent relationship between Pago and Guaco (which is near Teteto Beach where the probable shipwreck was identified offshore, Butler 1988:440), one might expect items recovered from the Santa Margarita shipwreck to be found in Pago village. However, nothing that could be directly tied to the Margarita or to the Nuestra Senora del Buen Viaje which supposedly sank in Pago Bay in 1754 (Quimby 1991b:44) was identified during the archaeological investigations at Old Pago. The Buen Viaje has not been the focus of a salvage project.
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The results of the archaeological studies in Old Pago indicate that the Spanish village had been built on a Latte Period village site. Three radiocarbon dates were obtained on material recovered from the MARS excavations. The earliest date, A.D. 870-1020, was obtained from coconut shell charcoal recovered from a fire pit. The date indicates that the area was used near the beginning of the Latte Period. The middle date, A.D. 1290-1420, and the most recent date, A.D. 1440-1640, were obtained on charcoal recovered from other parts of the site, indicating that use of the area continued through the Latte Period and into early historic times (Moore 2007).
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