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Landmark Americas religious

Marae Taputapuātea

1000 CE – still standing

Most sacred marae in Polynesia on Raiatea, spiritual centre of the Eastern Pacific

Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–900 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Americas 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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Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons