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Pulemelei Mound

The largest ancient structure in Polynesia: a stepped basalt-stone pyramid on Savai'i island, Samoa, built up in phases over a settlement that radiocarbon dating traces back roughly 2,000 years, and interpreted as a central ceremonial site tied to the stratification of early Samoan chiefdoms.

Dated events and their evidence

• 50 BCE mainstream
  earliest settlement beneath the mound, radiocarbon-dated to roughly 2000 years before present source
• 1250 CE mainstream
  primary mound phase constructed (radiocarbon-dated range 1100-1400 AD) source

Where

13.7350° S, 172.3244° W

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulemelei_Mound

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