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Landmark Oceania archaeological

Teouma Lapita Cemetery

1000 BCE – 800 BCE · 200 years

Major Lapita burial site in Vanuatu revealing the seafaring ancestors who colonized the remote Pacific islands

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1500 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 BCE–1930 CE)
  3. New Hebrides (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1945 CE–2026 CE)
Border precision
  • Defined

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Oceania

Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Polynesian peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1000 BCE and 800 BCE.

1000 BCE Ephesus 1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 957 BCE Temple of Solomon 911 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence

And in the rest of the world

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

Carthage Landmark · Europe 814 BCE – still standing Carthaginian Empire Polity · Europe 801 BCE – 145 BCE Phoenician Trade Route Trade route · Middle East 800 BCE – 300 BCE Wars of David & Solomon Conflict · Middle East 1010 BCE – 930 BCE King David Figure · Israel / Judah 1040 BCE – 970 BCE Delphi Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – still standing
Image credits 6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons