Evidence of first chief indicates Pacific islanders invented a new society on city they built of coral and basalt

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 13:32 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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.

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