2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2016.08.002
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Earliest direct evidence of monument building at the archaeological site of Nan Madol (Pohnpei, Micronesia) identified using 230Th/U coral dating and geochemical sourcing of megalithic architectural stone

Abstract: Archaeologists commonly use the onset of the construction of large burial monuments as a material indicator of a fundamental shift in authority in prehistoric human societies during the Holocene. High-quality direct evidence of this transition is rare. We report new interdisciplinary research at the archaeological site of Nan Madol that allows us to specify where and when people began to construct monumental architecture in the remote islands of the Pacific. Nan Madol is an ancient administrative and mortuary … Show more

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“…Riesenberg considered the Saudeleur Dynasty "a highly developed socio-political system that permitted the planning of the structures, organization of manpower to build them and to raise and feed the mass of labor necessary for construction" ( [24], p. 5). Subsequent research has corroborated this interpretation, with many other researchers noting the high level of social complexity implied by the construction of Nan Madol [2,[4][5][6][7][8]10,14,15,22,23,26,27]. Riesenberg's comment about the necessity of feeding laborers anticipates the findings on Temwen Island reported here.…”
Section: Project and Site Overviewsupporting
confidence: 80%
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“…Riesenberg considered the Saudeleur Dynasty "a highly developed socio-political system that permitted the planning of the structures, organization of manpower to build them and to raise and feed the mass of labor necessary for construction" ( [24], p. 5). Subsequent research has corroborated this interpretation, with many other researchers noting the high level of social complexity implied by the construction of Nan Madol [2,[4][5][6][7][8]10,14,15,22,23,26,27]. Riesenberg's comment about the necessity of feeding laborers anticipates the findings on Temwen Island reported here.…”
Section: Project and Site Overviewsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…As Carson notes ( [69], p. 2), "the stone city of Nan Madol in Pohnpei has long been regarded as the 'Venice of the Pacific,' with its canals leading through a labyrinthine network of long-abandoned stonework architecture, but rarely is this discussed in relation to the other monumental stonework traditions that developed throughout Micronesia and the Pacific all about the same time." McCoy and colleagues have presented evidence that Nan Madol's stone architecture is among the Pacific's oldest ( [2], p. 295). It remains to be determined how Nan Madol might be related to the spread of Pacific stone architecture, and how the discovered landscape of cultivation features might further this line of inquiry.…”
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“…Their impact on population dynamics of introduced rats is, however, negligible (Parsons et al, 2018) and their presence is not taken into account here. Time in isolation is taken from Kirch, 1984;Roberts, 1991;Matisoo-Smith et al, 1999;Cranbrook, 2000;Anderson & White, 2001;Anderson & Sinoto, 2002;Anderson, 2005Anderson, , 2008Green, Jones & Sheppard, 2008;Summerhayes et al, 2010;Hanebuth et al, 2011;Wilmshurst et al, 2011;Burley, Weisler & Zhao, 2012;Denham, Ramsey & Specht, 2012;Carson et al, 2013;Clark et al, 2016;McCoy et al, 2016;West et al, 2017 (details per island provided in Data S2; see also Fig. 1) and binned in classes of 1,000 years each, except for the highest class (class 5), which represents time in isolation exceeding 5,000 years without upper limit.…”
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confidence: 99%