04-15-2024, 11:32 AM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...27582.html
The first cities in the Pacific were established much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) used aerial laser scanning to map archaeological sites on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga.
They found that urbanisation in the Pacific was an indigenous innovation that developed before Western influence.
“Earth structures were being constructed in Tongatapu around AD 300. This is 700 years earlier than previously thought,” study co-author Phillip Parton said in a statement.
This is a part of the world whose history often gets ignored, but judging from this article, there's still a lot of fascinating stuff to learn about it!
I wonder what these urbanised Pacific societies would have looked like?
The first cities in the Pacific were established much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) used aerial laser scanning to map archaeological sites on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga.
They found that urbanisation in the Pacific was an indigenous innovation that developed before Western influence.
“Earth structures were being constructed in Tongatapu around AD 300. This is 700 years earlier than previously thought,” study co-author Phillip Parton said in a statement.
This is a part of the world whose history often gets ignored, but judging from this article, there's still a lot of fascinating stuff to learn about it!
I wonder what these urbanised Pacific societies would have looked like?
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