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'Small scattered fragments do not a dwarf make': Palau, 2008
PLOS ONE published a dwarfism claim from two Palau caves in March 2008, then a rebuttal from three universities five and a half months later.
· 1000 BCClassical world Oceania
Oceania in the classical world (800 BC – AD 500). Greece, Rome, Persia, the Qin and Han, the Maya: the age of the great classical states and the written histories that describe them. These articles cover their rise, their wars and the everyday lives their ruins preserve.
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1,800 years in Tonga and Samoa: the long pause before East Polynesia
Lapita settlers landed at Nukuleka, Tonga, about 2,800 years ago. Descendants stayed in Tonga and Samoa until about AD 1025, then settled East Polynesia.
· 500 BC
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Three dark bands in a dune: Sigatoka's Levels 1, 2 and 3, dug in 1965
Birks dug 2,700 square meters of Fiji's Sigatoka dunes in 1965–66 and found three buried soils. Level 2, the Navatu layer, dates 1,700 to 1,300 cal BP.
· 200 BC
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Sand, reef and stick charts: settling the Marshall Islands
A 2022 PNAS study ties Pacific atoll settlement to sea-level fall after a highstand. Digs date Ebon occupation to two millennia and Utrōk to the first centuries AD.
· AD 1
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One fifth of Babeldaob: the terraced hills of Palau, 500 BC to AD 650
Earthwork terraces cover an estimated 20 percent of Babeldaob, Palau, built about 500 BC to AD 650 and left by about AD 1000 for coastal villages of stone.
· AD 200
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Mangaasi pottery, Efate, 1967: 17,000 sherds and a sequence reversed
José Garanger dug 118 square meters at Mangaasi on Efate in 1966–67 and named a pottery style. Re-excavation from 1996 put Erueti ware before it.
· 1967