8.4 The pacific: 3000 to 1500 b.c.

The pacific

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Aboriginal development in religion, political and economic life continued in Australia. Immigrants from Indonesia brought Lapita pottery into the Melanesian islands by 2,000 B.C. and perhaps to Micronesia, just north of the equator, by about 1,500 B.C. (Ref. 8 , 134 )

Forward to The Pacific: 1500 to 1000 B.C.

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