This comment criticizes misleading conclusions about sea level flux and sociopolitical changes in Pohnpei's oral traditions, urging careful reevaluation.
This comment addresses a substantive error appearing in “Links between climatic histories and the rise and fall of a Pacific chiefdom” in PNAS Nexus . The conclusions that article draws about causal connections among changing sea levels, sociopolitical developments, and oral traditions on Pohnpei are misleading and mistaken.
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