James Bayman's research while affiliated with Honolulu University and other places

... Without the benefit of historical observation, the study of prehistoric kinship is limited not only by the granular and material nature of prehistoric record but also by additional hermeneutic layers of interpretation, including past versus present, other cultures, site formation processes, genetic/linguistic evolution, and archaeologists themselves in their society (Shanks & Hodder 1995). Since the twentieth century, processual archaeologists have employed ethnography and the direct historical approach to infer patterns of kinship in the remains of houses, mortuary practices, and pottery distributions (Earle 2008, Miller et al. 2021. By the late twentieth century, as archaeological research into ancient kinship ebbed, genetic research began to fill the gap. ...

... Although more comprehensive archaeological mortuary studies are needed, at the moment, no significant sex disparities regarding funerary practices or the presence of sex-exclusive grave-goods have been published (Stodder et al. 2015;Walth 2016, p. 341). Although women at Naton Beach displayed more beads than men (Amesbury et al. 2020), both groups wore beads; and both were buried with sling-stones and adzes at this same site (Walth 2016: 341). The sources state that these materials belonged to men and "principales" respectively (Martínez 1997: 468). ...

... Furthermore, during the Spanish and German occupation, in addition to land in the village, each Chamorro family owned a lancho (ranch-farm). The lancho system was introduced during the Spanish colonial period (Bayman et al., 2020;Dixon el al., 2020). According to Fritz (2001), the Chamorro people preferred their lanchos and used them for hunting and fishing. ...

... In this article, we have focused on the church and cemetery of San Dionisio, and presented the preliminary results of the excavations conducted until now. These excavations are part of the research project ABERIGUA which aims to excavate at different enclaves of the colonial period to better understand the case-specific details of colonial strategies implemented during the colonization of Guam and the Marianas, and the subsequent native Chamorro responses -including processes of cultural identity, change and continuity (Montón Subías, Bayman & Moragas 2018;Montón-Subías in press [2021]). On March 6, 1521, Chamorros encountered Europeans for the first time when they visited the Magellan expedition that had anchored in their article waters while circumnavigating the world. ...