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Vatia villagers in American Samoa have always known these sites that lie inside the National Park, exist on Faiga ridge in Vatia.
Led by NPS archaeologist Epifania Suafo’a-Taua’i, National Park Service staff, along with congressional candidate Aumua Amata visited the area on Friday, Samoa News reports.
The purpose of the hike was to record coordinates of the house sites, graves, grinding stones and pigeon-snaring star mounds - to map the finds for Global Positioning Systems (GIS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
The sites will be added to the national database of the U.S. National Park Service, under which the local park comes. Determining how old the sites are will come later.
A look at the largest of about 25 ancient Samoan house sites found that measure 25 metres (about 82 feet) by 17 metres (56 feet).
