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  • Archaeology Find Redefines Fijian History Of First Peoples

    08/25/2002 4:40:43 PM PDT · by blam · 23 replies · 1,345+ views
    ABCNews ^ | 8-26-2002
    Mon, Aug 26 2002 8:34 AM AEST Archaeology find redefines Fijian history of first peoples The discovery of a skeleton on a Fijian island has fuelled speculation that the first people to inhabit the archipelago arrived 3,000 years ago, 500 years earlier than previously thought. Prominent South Pacific islands' geoscientist William Dickinson, from the University of Arizona, described the find as "the most important scientific discovery of its kind in Fiji for the past 30 years". Discovered by 15 University of the South Pacific geography students at Moturiki Island, the two-metre skeleton is believed to be of Solomon Islands origin....