The South Pacific is the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator. The archaeology of the southern Pacific from prehistory through to the establishment of complex chiefdoms in many locales. The Polynesian civilization of Easter Island built colossal stone Moai statues and also are credited with inventing Rongorongo, which may be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history.
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- SCARP, http://scarp.com.au/research/
- Smithsonian Magazine, Archeologists Uncover 20,000-Year-Old Kangaroo Cook Out, by Jason Daley, 31 May 2018