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Polity Oceania

Aboriginal tribes

Attested 3000 BCE

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Aboriginal tribes appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

3000 BCE

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

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

Aboriginal Tasmanians

Attested 3000 BCE – 1800 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

Landmark · Oceania

Tongariro Alpine Crossing

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 3000 BCE.

3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Byblos

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 Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE
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