Oceania in the medieval world (500 – 1500). A thousand years of kingdoms, caliphates, steppe empires and trading cities between the fall of Rome and the voyages that joined the hemispheres.
Nan Madol is 92 to 100 islets of stacked basalt columns on a reef off Pohnpei. Coral from its first chief's tomb dates the monuments to AD 1180 to 1200.
· 1200Navigators read star houses, swells, clouds and birds. East Polynesia was settled about AD 1025 to 1290, and Hokulea sailed to Tahiti in 1976.
· 1200In 2012 Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo rocked a 5-ton replica moai upright with 18 people and three ropes. The road statues, the forest debate and the 1860s.
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