Free Nan Madol discovery card

Move from waterline to stone source, and from sample to date. Keep observation, research and tradition in distinct sentences.

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Basalt wall rising beside shallow water at Nan Madol, with trees, palms and roots above and around the masonry. — Water beside a stone enclosure at Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. The photograph is a dated view, not a measurement of the original shoreline. Uhooep · 16 May 2023 · CC BY-SA4.0. Existing derivative reused unchanged. Previously proportionally reduced and encoded as WebP without cropping, object alteration or AI generation. Derivative retains the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Image record ↗

1. Water / boundary: Find the line where water approaches the cover wall. Describe it, then explain why a dated photograph does not reconstruct the original shoreline.

2. Stone / journey: Compare long sides and exposed ends in the wall detail. Write one visible observation and one question that would require geological analysis.

3. Sample / date / interpretation: Make three separate sentences for the 2016 Nandowas result. Add how the wider 2024 sequence changes the scale of the question without dating every wall identically.

4. Memory / care: Distinguish the foundation tradition from a construction measurement. Then choose a conservation question from the 2018 project aims and explain what fresh evidence it would require today.

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