Pulemelei and Savaiʻi settlement landscapes
Pulemelei and Palauli regional context, Savaiʻi
The mound belongs to a wider landscape of platforms and settlement. Excavation and geophysics study construction while research history exposes the limits of monument-centered accounts.
Islands, households, and connected ocean worlds
Island, coastal, and ocean settings
Pulemelei is a place in Palauli on Savaiʻi, not an archaeological boundary around all Samoan communities.
Political organization and community scale
Collective labor and hierarchical organization are research questions supported by construction evidence. Exact offices, worker identities, and obligations are not fully recoverable.
Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
Modern Samoan heritage work joins research with education, memory, and land-tenure questions. Present communities are not reduced to a prehistoric typology.
The excavation project investigated adjacent remains rather than an isolated pyramid.
The monograph's chronology separates earlier settlement from mound building.
The academic introduction relates excavation to education and cultural-heritage management in Samoa.
Eine kurze, quellengestützte Zeitleiste
Diese Meilensteine dienen der Orientierung und sind keine vollständige Geschichte.
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Earlier activity distinguished
The published sequence treats settlement history as older than the main monumental construction.
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Monumental building
Construction belongs to a developing settlement landscape, not a precisely known single event.
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Excavation and survey
Research examined the mound and neighboring structures with archaeological and geophysical methods.
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Heritage synthesis
The monograph placed excavation alongside contemporary education, tenure, and memory.
Voyaging, food, craft, labor, belief, and material evidence
In diesem Profil genannte Sprachen
- Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.
Sprachfamilie: Language relationships are a separate line of evidence, not a ceramic, biological, or citizenship classification.
Construction sequences
Settlement beyond a monument
Archaeology and heritage education
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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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Polynesian Wayfinding
Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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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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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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Wairau, List No. 9561
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record
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Excavations at the Pulemelei mound site 2002-2004
Australian National University research repository · Primary excavation study and institutional abstract · 2007
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Samoan archaeology and cultural heritage: monuments and people, memory and history
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives · Institutional book record with chapter chronology · 2016
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Samoan Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, chapter 1 sample
Archaeopress · Academic monograph sample · 2016
Redaktionelle Prüfung: October 20, 2026