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relative time period: From the first settlement of the Society islands to the historic period.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

    Peter N. Peregrine

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  2. Human Relations Area Files/Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Melvin Ember

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Peregrine, P.N. (2001). Tongan. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1189-2_38

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