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Polity Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Speakers of Austronesian languages

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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 7 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Austronesians 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 7 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 400 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 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

Teouma Lapita Cemetery

1000 BCE – 800 BCE

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Oceania

Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Tasmanian hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Papuan neolithic farmers

Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 400 BCE.

1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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