Nan Madol: Venice of the Pacific
The Ancients
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What Is the Archaeology of Namada?
Namada is in an offshore location, in an inner tidal zone, on a raised reef platform. It's just off of a small temin island, which is off the southeastern coast of pontpe. So we see right in this area an occupation that dates back to at least two thousand years ago. We also have indications that the people who came here made pottery. Now this is unusual for eastern micronesia,. Most of the islands are low islands. Most of them are coral islands. And on coral islands, you don't a clay deposits where you can make pottery.
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