Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island (Southern Cook Islands), excavated by a multi-disciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern Polynesia.
![Excavation in progress](/tangatatau/sites/default/files/inline-images/Tangatatau%20Rockshelter%20excavations%20in%20progress%201991%2C%20PV%20Kirch.jpg)
Site photographs
![Shell artifact](/tangatatau/sites/default/files/inline-images/M44-C30-10-16%27.jpg)
Master object catalog
![Text excavation](/tangatatau/sites/default/files/inline-images/Test%20excavation%20of%20MAN-92%2C%20Veitatei%2C%201991%2C%20PV%20Kirch.jpg)