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Man standing next to largest known erected latte stone, at House of Taga Fallen stones at House of Taga. The prehistoric latte stone pillars (also called taga stones) at House of Taga stood 15 feet (4.6 m) high, and were quarried about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) south of the site. [2]
Rota Latte Stone Quarry, also known as the As Nieves quarry, is located near the Chamorro village of Sinapalo, on the island of Rota in the Marianas Archipelago.The prehistoric megaliths found there are believed to have been used as foundation pillars for houses, with some of them weighing up to 35 tons.
Taumako is the largest of the Duff Islands, in the nation of Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. This 5.7-kilometre-long (3.5-mile) island has steep sides and rises to a height of 400 metres (1,312 feet) above sea level. It is composed of basaltic lavas and pyroclastics like the other islands in the Duffs. Taumako seen from space (courtesy NASA)
Known distribution of the Lapita culture Reconstruction of the face of a Lapita woman exhibited in the National Museum of Ethnology of Japan. The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE.
A small number of runestones may date to the late medieval to early modern period, such as the Fámjin stone (Faroe Islands), dated to the Reformation period. Modern runestones (as imitations or forgeries of Viking Age runestones) began to be produced in the 19th century Viking Revival.
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The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands was built in the 1830s and is New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building. It was erected next to the wooden Mission House , built in the early 1820s and the country's oldest surviving building, as part of the Church Missionary Society 's second station in New Zealand.