Pang Pang Excavation Unlocks Mysteries of the First Pacific Settlers

via Cosmos, 15 September 2023: Indigenous archaeologists and international researchers unearth Lapita pottery shards at Pang Pang, Vanuatu, shedding light ...

There are now over 200 lectures in the Online Lecture Library (April 2021 update)

30 April 2021 - Updated on 22 November 2022

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This month we hit a milestone with the Online Lecture Library - over 200 talks have now been indexed in ...

Ancient DNA provides new understanding of Oceanic settlement

3 February 2021

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via Matangi Tonga, 29 January 2021: News feature on how ancient DNA studies improve our understanding of human migration and ...

[Paper] Long-distance Lapita pottery transfers and ancient social relationships: A case study from the St. Maurice-Vatcha (KVO003) Lapita site on Île des Pins, New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia)

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via Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 26 October 2020: A paper about Lapita pottery distribution in New Caledonia, and what ...

Neolithic Artefacts from Papua New Guinea. Source: Science News 20200325

[Paper] New find from New Guinea’s suggest independent Neolithic development and symbolic art

30 March 2020 - Updated on 1 December 2020

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via Science Advances, 25 March 2020: New discoveries from the Waim archaeological site in Papua New Guinea suggest the emergence ...

[Paper] Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists

27 January 2020 - Updated on 29 October 2020

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via Nature Human Behaviour, 20 January 2020: New paper in Nature Human Behavior indicates that people were transporting and growing ...

[Book] Debating Lapita

17 December 2019 - Updated on 30 March 2021

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via ANU Press, December 2019: A new book about research on the Lapita culture. The e-book is free!

Traces of Early Austronesian Expansion to East Indonesia? New Discovery of Dentate-Stamped and Lime-Infilled Pottery from Central Sulawesi

24 June 2019 - Updated on 6 October 2020

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via the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 03 June 2019: Pottery from Sulawesi have similarities with pottery found in ...

[Paper] Complex history of dog (Canis familiaris) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes

19 June 2018 - Updated on 4 December 2020

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New paper in Nature about the origins and spread of dogs in Southeast Asia and the Pacific by Kreig et ...

Cemetery in Vanuatu sheds light on the Polynesians in the Pacific

8 January 2016 - Updated on 10 December 2020

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Bones from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu suggest that the earliest humans in the pacific were more similar to that ...

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