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Earliest Site Inventory

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So far, at least eight sites in the Mariana Islands have produced diagnostic early-type thin red-slipped pottery plus radiocarbon dating approximately 1500 B.C. The dating details for each site are reviewed critically, along with consideration of other sites where early dates have been claimed.

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Carson, M.T. (2014). Earliest Site Inventory. In: First Settlement of Remote Oceania. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 1. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01047-2_4

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