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A.D. 1680 and Rapa Nui Prehistory

Lipo, Carl P.; Hunt, Terry L. (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2009)

A.D. 1680 remains a central date in the prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The date was first proposed as the year of an epic battle calculated from the number of generations recounted in the oral traditions. Later ...
Dating the City Wall, Fortifications, and the Palace Site at Pagan

Grave, Peter; Barbetti, Mike (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2001)

The strengths and limitations of radiocarbon dating as applied to samples taken in and around the walled city center of Pagan, in Burma, are addressed. The last thousand years in mainland Southeast Asia remains a difficult ...
The Origins of Bagan: New Dates and Old Inhabitants

Hudson, Bob; Lwin, Nyein; Maung, Win (Tanpawady) (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2001)

Bagan is a major early urban center in Myanmar (Burma). Hundreds of Buddhist monuments were built there between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries A.D. The dating of activities earlier than this has until recently not ...
Radiocarbon Dates and Technological Change in Salt Production at the Site of Zhongba in the Three Gorges, China

Flad, Rowan K.; Xiaohong, Wu (吳小紅); Von Falkenhausen, Lothar; Shuicheng, LI (李水城); Zhibin, Sun (孫智彬); Chen, Pochan (陳伯楨) (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2009)

The prehistoric chronology of the Three Gorges region along the Yangzi River in China has only become the focus of significant archaeological research in the last decade. The site of Zhongba is one of the most significant ...