Societies collapse when political and social systems reward behaviors that intensify that danger even after warning signs...
Oceania
Explore the histories of Oceania through the island societies that shaped the Pacific long before European colonization. These studies follow Indigenous continuity alongside the disruptions and transformations brought by global contact.
By 10,000 years ago, humans had migrated to most habitable lands that could be reached on foot....
By the British Museum Marae The Maori built meeting houses before the period of contact with Europeans....
Federated States of Micronesia. The Yap Islands can be found in the far western portion of the...
Nan Madol, 13th-17th century C.E., Pohnpei, The Federated States of Micronesia (photo: smwd0030, CC BY 2.0) Sometimes art...
View of the northeast of the exterior slopes of the quarry, with several moai (human figure carving)...
Terracotta fragments, Lapita people, c. 1000 B.C.E., red-slip earthenware, Santa Cruz Islands, south-east of Solomon Islands (Department...