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Watom Island (SAC site)

Small island off New Britain, Papua New Guinea, where a 1909 storm exposed the Lapita pottery that first let archaeologists link far-flung Pacific sites into a single cultural horizon; the Reber-Rakival/SAC burial ground remains a key Lapita chronology anchor.

Dated events and their evidence

• 850 BCE mainstream
  SAC burial ground / Reber-Rakival Lapita occupation source

Where

4.1150° S, 152.0719° E

Sources

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

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