Ulong and Palauan marine communities
Ulong Island regional context, Rock Islands
Ceramics and marine food remains connect island settlement with lagoon environments. Revised dating and living Palauan relationships prevent a story of a vanished, isolated people.
Géographie, contexte politique et héritage
Géographie historique
A limestone-island setting differs from Babeldaob's volcanic uplands. No marker represents lagoon boundaries, fishing rights, or customary ownership.
Organisation politique
Small island communities maintained varied relations with neighboring islands. Material evidence alone cannot determine named offices or the organization of every village.
Contexte contemporain
Palauans sustain cultural relationships and resource stewardship here. Later village abandonment did not erase those ties.
The 2004 study reports revised ages around 3000-2650 BP for previously over-old samples; calibration and laboratory history matter.
Heritage evidence places caves, middens, and later stone villages within a multi-period island landscape.
The 2021 synthesis studies terrestrial and marine practices together rather than treating communities as passive occupants.
Uma cronologia breve e documentada
Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.
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Stone village landscapes
Regional heritage records distinguish permanent village remains from earlier cave use.
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Relocation without cultural disappearance
The heritage record describes movement toward larger islands and continuing ancestral ties.
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Radiocarbon correction published
Redating challenged apparent very early occupation and suspected laboratory error.
Culture et langue en contexte
Langues mentionnées dans ce profil
- Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.
Famille linguistique: Language relationships are a separate line of evidence, not a ceramic, biological, or citizenship classification.
Marine food economies
Laboratory revision
Ancestral places and continuing care
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Sources utilisées pour cette page
Prefer Pacific heritage institutions, Indigenous and community-linked organizations, accountable excavation projects, and peer-reviewed research. Register HTTPS sources, not Wikipedia. Institutional records can contain older dates or interpretations and are compared with dated research rather than treated as timeless authority.
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C1
Polynesian Wayfinding
Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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C2
Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record
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C3
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997
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C4
Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island
Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed radiocarbon study · 2013
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C5
Cook Island artifact geochemistry demonstrates spatial and temporal extent of pre-European interarchipelago voyaging in East Polynesia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological sourcing study · 2016
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C6
Three Late 18th Century CE East Polynesian Sails in the British Museum Reveal Regional Adaptations in Sailing Technology
Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed study of later collected evidence · 2025
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C7
The Ancient Capitals of the Kingdom of Tonga
Tonga National Commission for UNESCO, hosted by UNESCO · State-submitted tentative-list record, not World Heritage inscription · 2007
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C8
Household expansion linked to agricultural intensification during emergence of Hawaiian archaic states
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological study · 2011
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C9
Echoing Wahi Kūpuna
Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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C10
Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe
Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02
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C11
Wairau, List No. 9561
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record
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S1
Radiocarbon dates from the Ulong site in Palau and implications for Western Micronesian prehistory
Australian National University research repository · Primary radiocarbon study and institutional abstract · 2004
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S2
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 inscription; living record
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S3
Tropical islands of the Anthropocene: Deep histories of anthropogenic terrestrial-marine entanglement in the Pacific and Caribbean
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Peer-reviewed archaeological synthesis · 2021
Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026