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...large peace memorial as the city's new anchor. The memorial eventually became the Peace Memorial Park, a graceful 30-acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current mayor, says this was one of the critical turning points in Hiroshima's recovery. The assistance...
...aquamarine walls almost as much as his coughing), gaze into his man-sized safe, and pace the verandas where the writer would listen to the distant surf crashing on the reef. But Samoa's climate hasn't been kind to his writing. A set of first editions in the museum has almost perished. "The cockroaches got to the books," says museum manager Lufilufi Rasmussen. "The covers aren't legible now, so we have to get them restored...
...dates back around 3,000 years - to when people first arrived in this part of the world. Never before has such a large collection of skeletal remains from these early wanderers, known as the Lapita people, been found. Excavations by an international team working with the Vanuatu National Museum began last year, followed by a second, more extensive dig, which finished last week. The finds of just two seasons' work, covering only a small part of the site, have left Pacific prehistory hunters unable to contain their glee. "It's the site we've all been looking for, the site...
...their retinue of plants and animals through the islands. Though evidence of its country's founding culture has been discovered in Vanuatu before, the story is far from complete, and when he heard of the driver's find, Ralph Regenvanu, the head of Vanuatu's Cultural Centre and National Museum, asked Spriggs and another ANU archaeologist, Stuart Bedford, to assess the site...
...pottery bird, never before seen in the Pacific, one of three originally on the rim of a pot which contained human bones and was decorated with mouthless human faces. The birds were perched looking into the bowl: "God knows what that means," says Spriggs. Such objects will make priceless museum pieces. But the answers that the Teouma site may help provide are just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori were...