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Polity Oceania

Papuan

Attested 200 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 Papuan appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

200 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

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

Polity · Oceania

Tasmanian hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Aboriginal Tasmanians

Attested 3000 BCE – 1800 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 200 BCE.

200 BCE Han–Xiongnu Wars 200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku 200 BCE Ajanta Caves 200 BCE Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
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