Articles about daily life across every continent and era, oldest first.
In 1934 Folke Bergman counted 120 coffins by the Small River. A 2021 Nature study of 18 genomes found the Tarim mummies had no western ancestry.
· 1900 BCPottery, rice husks and two skeletons from Ritidian Beach Cave date the first crossing to the Marianas to about 1500 BC and point to the Philippines.
· 1500 BCIn August 1985 Patrick Kirch's team found a waterlogged Lapita stilt-village at Talepakemalai on Eloaua Island, Mussau, with pottery and obsidian intact.
· 1300 BCFound in January 2004 after quarrying for a prawn farm, Teouma on Efate held 68 Lapita graves, a skull in Pot 2 and DNA that rewrote Pacific ancestry.
· 1000 BCLapita voyagers from the Bismarck Archipelago were the first people on Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, about 1400 to 1000 BC. DNA points to East Asia.
· 1000 BCAntiquity's 2019 report says a major conflagration destroyed Must Farm's Bronze Age stilt houses, whose contents sank into a Cambridgeshire river channel.
· 850 BCLapita 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 BCIn 494 BC Rome's plebeian soldiers left the city for the Sacred Mount. Livy says they came back after winning officials of their own, the tribunes.
· 494 BCPermafrost under the Pazyryk mounds in the Altai kept felt, wood, horses, tattooed skin, a wagon and a knotted carpet from the 5th to 4th century BC.
· 400 BCOne panel of Sanchi's south gateway names its makers, ivory-carvers from Vidisha. Some 800 other inscriptions name the monks, nuns and bankers who paid.
· 50 BCA 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 1Wheeler dug Arikamedu, near Pondicherry, in 1945, found Italian Arretine ware and dated it AD 20-50; later digs argued it began near the 2nd century BC.
· AD 50Vesuvius buried Pompeii under about 4 m of ash in AD 79. Pliny dates it to August 24; Pompeii's park says the October date has no documentary basis.
· AD 79Claudia Severa's birthday invitation, tablet 291, is one of the Roman ink letters on thin wood found at the fort of Vindolanda since March 23, 1973.
· AD 100Earthwork 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 200Priscus's fragment 8, in J. B. Bury's translation, follows the East Roman embassy of 449 to Attila, a Greek merchant turned Hun and a banquet in wood.
· AD 449Sogdian merchants from Samarkand and Bukhara, who kept colonies across China from the AD 300s to the 700s and faded after the Arab conquest.
· AD 600A 1976 bulldozer cut into Joya de Cerén, a Maya village buried by Loma Caldera ash about AD 630-650. Digs found stocked houses, fields and no bodies.
· AD 630Monks Mound, 291 by 236 meters at one contour, anchored Cahokia in Illinois, a city of about 120 mounds and nearly 20,000 people about 1100, empty by 1350.
· 1100In 1896–97 Solomon Schechter emptied the Ben Ezra Synagogue's geniza in Fustat. Cambridge counts 193,000 fragments, Bible leaves to a Maimonides letter.
· 1100Navigators read star houses, swells, clouds and birds. East Polynesia was settled about AD 1025 to 1290, and Hokulea sailed to Tahiti in 1976.
· 1200On December 18, 1888, two ranchers looking for cattle saw Cliff Palace. Eight collections, a Swedish dig and the Antiquities Act of June 8, 1906 followed.
· 1250About AD 1200 Moundville, Alabama, was a palisaded town around a mound-lined plaza. After 1300 most residents left and it became a burial center.
· 1250Ibn Battuta reached Kilwa in 1331. Excavations in the 1960s and 2016 and a 2023 DNA study date its origins differently; five of its coins turned up in Australia.
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