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posted by martyb on Thursday October 20 2016, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the monumental-effort dept.

New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ancient coral reef capital in the Pacific Ocean was the earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief.

The discovery makes Nan Madol a key locale for studying how ancient human societies evolved from simple societies to more complex societies, said archaeologist Mark D. McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. McCoy led the discovery team.

McCoy deployed uranium series dating to determine that when the tomb was built it was one-of-a-kind, making it the first monumental scaled burial site on the remote islands of the Pacific.

The discovery enables archaeologists to study more precisely how societies transform to more and more complex and hierarchical systems, said McCoy, an expert in landscape archaeology and monumental architecture and ideology in the Pacific Islands.

"Pacific Islanders Invented New Kind of Society." So, abundant fish and fruit, sparkling beaches, crystalline water, mild weather, and half-naked Polynesian women weren't enough?


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @09:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @09:56AM (#416545)

    i like to drink as much alcohol as I can without passing out, then painting my body with several different colors, then strip naked except for a freemason G over my anus and penis and running all over the island on my hands and feet then hands and knees until I really do pass out. I like to grunt like animals and take dumps from wonderful heights right into their drinking water and yell "wax on wax off, bitches!"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:37AM (#416558)

    We found the Chief.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:11PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:11PM (#416797)

    > then painting my body with several different colors, then strip naked

    You're doing it wrong

    > i like to drink as much alcohol as I can without passing out

    Oh ... I guess it does make sense ... for a brit or an American.

    The OP mentions "half-naked Polynesian women", hopefully the pre-obesity kind. I'll get those while you have what you probably call "fun"/