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Polity Oceania

Papuan neolithic farmers

Attested 1500 BCE – 400 BCE

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

The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Papuan neolithic farmers appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 5 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 400 BCE
1500 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

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Oceania

Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Polynesian peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 400 BCE.

1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 1500 BCE Tabriz 1470 BCE Temple of Hatshepsut 1457 BCE Campaigns of Thutmose III 1400 BCE Temple of Luxor 1400 BCE Mount Nebo

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE
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