In 1834, French Catholic priests and lay brothers from the order of Sacrés Cœurs de Jésus et Marie arrived in the Mangareva islands, a remote archipelago located about 1600km southeast of Tahiti, to establish the first permanent mission in the region, small stone cottages to replace the traditional buildings of wood and thatch. This talk focuses on the results of excavations carried out in 2023-2024 that documented many of the remaining buildings including schools, churches, a cathedral, 'are po'atu and other structures. In addition to recording building techniques, which used materials and methods imported from Europe but adapted to the local environment, the excavations recovered a sample of material culture that reflect the increasingly globalised economy of Polynesia over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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