▪ Abstract The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with
some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen …

The human colonization of the Pacific is an enduring problem in historical anthropology.
Recent advances in archaeology, historical linguistics, and bioanthropology have coalesced …

Javanese; Jawa [P/U] Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian,
Sundic, Javanese. Central Java, Irian Jaya, Sulawesi, Sumatra etc.(Indonesia). f Primary …

Human settlement of Polynesia was a major event in world prehistory. Despite the vastness
of the distances covered, research suggests that prehistoric Polynesian populations …

The peopling of Remote Oceanic islands by Austronesian speakers is a fascinating and yet
contentious part of human prehistory. Linguistic, archaeological, and genetic studies have …

The Trans New Guinea (TNG) 1 hypothesis, which posits a common ancestry for over 400 of
the non-Austronesian languages of Melanesia and eastern Indonesia, has had a chequered …

Ambrose (this issue, above) and Sand (this issue, above) reported on Lapita in the specific,
without being parochial in their concerns. This paper looks at the largest Lapita picture, but …

Establishing an accurate date for earliest Polynesian settlement in New Zealand is essential
for understanding patterns of settlement and associated enviromental impacts, and the …

For the past fifty years, historical linguistics and archaeology have provided seemingly
mutually corroboratory evidence for the settlement of east Polynesia. However, more recent …

Archaeological studies estimate the initial settlement of Samoa at 2,750 to 2,880 y ago and
identify only limited settlement and human modification to the landscape until about 1,000 to …