In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The …
How early human foragers impacted insular forests is a topic with implications across multiple disciplines, including resource management. Paradoxically, terminal Pleistocene …
Abstract The terminal Pleistocene/Holocene boundary (approximately 12–8 thousand years ago) represented a major ecological threshold for humans, both as a significant climate …
Shell valuable exchange in the New Guinea Highlands has been a key interest in anthropology, providing insight into economics, aesthetics, and social stratification among …
T Denham, MJ MOUNTAIN - Archaeology in Oceania, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
New AMS radiocarbon dating at Nombe rock shelter in Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea confirms human use from c. 25500–19600 calBP and corroborates previous …
Recent archaeological discoveries of pottery on mainland New Guinea dating to 3000 years ago have drawn attention to the role of Austronesian expansions that were originally thought …
On my first field trip to the interior of Papua New Guinea in 1990, 1 stayed among the Kalam of the Lower Jimi Valley, Western Highlands Province. Over a fire one night, people told …
This article presents archaeological data critical to our understanding of the pre-colonial past along the northeast coast of New Guinea. Two archaeological sites from coastal and …
This paper investigates how coastal mobility and a community's place within regional trade networks intersect with technological organisation. To do this, we identified different types of …