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Landmark Oceania archaeological World Heritage

Kuk Early Agricultural Site

8000 BCE – still standing

Ancient wetland farming site in Papua New Guinea showing one of the world's earliest independent transitions to agriculture

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Kuk Swamp on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE–2000 BCE)
  2. Papuan neolithic farmers (1500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
  4. Papuan (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–700 CE)
  6. Papuans (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1100 CE)
  8. Papuans (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1279 CE–1400 CE)
  10. Papuans (1492 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. New Guinea (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Papua New Guinea (1900 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Papua and New Guinea (Australia) (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Australia (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Papua and New Guinea (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Territory of Papua and New Guinea (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Papua New Guinea (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

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Landmark · Oceania

Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Malaysian Islamic states

Attested 1492 CE – 1600 CE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Musket Wars

1807 CE – 1845 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 8000 BCE and 2026 CE.

6600 BCE Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 800 CE Borobudur 850 CE Prambanan 1000 CE Pura Besakih

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
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