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Palauli, Savaiʻi · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

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.

Archaeological settlement and landscape context Approximately 1100-1500 CE for monumental development; earlier settlement background Excavated construction phases, radiocarbon chronology, geophysical survey, settlement mapping, and later cultural accounts. Pulemelei and Palauli regional context, Savaiʻi; approximate archaeological or regional orientation point only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, trade-route, sovereignty, or modern national boundary. Not an excavation coordinate or permission to enter sacred or private places.
Resumen

Islas, hogares y mundos oceánicos conectados

Entornos insulares, costeros y oceánicos

Pulemelei is a place in Palauli on Savaiʻi, not an archaeological boundary around all Samoan communities.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Collective labor and hierarchical organization are research questions supported by construction evidence. Exact offices, worker identities, and obligations are not fully recoverable.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Modern Samoan heritage work joins research with education, memory, and land-tenure questions. Present communities are not reduced to a prehistoric typology.

Scale of evidence Mound plus surrounding structures

The excavation project investigated adjacent remains rather than an isolated pyramid.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Chronology Construction discussed around 1100-1400 CE

The monograph's chronology separates earlier settlement from mound building.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Stewardship Research includes present heritage questions

The academic introduction relates excavation to education and cultural-heritage management in Samoa.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Earlier activity distinguished

    The published sequence treats settlement history as older than the main monumental construction.

  2. Monumental building

    Construction belongs to a developing settlement landscape, not a precisely known single event.

  3. Excavation and survey

    Research examined the mound and neighboring structures with archaeological and geophysical methods.

  4. Heritage synthesis

    The monograph placed excavation alongside contemporary education, tenure, and memory.

Cultura e idioma

Navegación, alimentación, artesanía, trabajo, creencias y evidencias materiales

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.

Familia lingüística: 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

DNA Genics prepared this AI-assisted educational synthesis from attributed sources. Those communities, researchers, and institutions did not author or endorse it. Summaries are original paraphrases; no artifact, sacred-site, burial, or human-remains imagery is reproduced. Corrections can be raised through the site's contact channel.

Guía de investigación con IA

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Registro de pruebas

Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

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.

  1. C1

    Polynesian Wayfinding

    Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

  2. C2

    Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making

    UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record

  3. C3

    The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia

    Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997

  4. C4
  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. C9

    Echoing Wahi Kūpuna

    Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

  10. C10

    Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe

    Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02

  11. C11

    Wairau, List No. 9561

    Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record

  12. S1

    Excavations at the Pulemelei mound site 2002-2004

    Australian National University research repository · Primary excavation study and institutional abstract · 2007

  13. S2

    Samoan archaeology and cultural heritage: monuments and people, memory and history

    Smithsonian Libraries and Archives · Institutional book record with chapter chronology · 2016

  14. S3

    Samoan Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, chapter 1 sample

    Archaeopress · Academic monograph sample · 2016

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026