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Research from ANU shows urbanisation in the Pacific began around AD 300, much earlier than previously thought. This indigenous development led to significant changes and collapsed mainly due to European contact and diseases.
Lead author, PhD scholar Phillip Parton, said the new timeline also indicates that urbanization in the Pacific was an indigenous innovation that developed before Western influence. “We were able to combine high-tech mapping and archaeological fieldwork to understand what was happening in Tongatapu,” he said. “Having this type of information really adds to our understanding of early Pacific societies. Urbanization is not an area that has been investigated much until now. When people think of early cities they usually think of traditional old European cities with compact housing and windy cobblestone streets. This is a very different kind of city.
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