[Paper] Multidisciplinary evidence for early banana ( Musa cvs.) cultivation on Mabuyag Island, Torres Strait
New paper from Nature Ecology & Evolution by Williams et al. about banana cultivation in the Torres Strait, between Australia ...
Tag: New Guinea (island)
Island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia and shared between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
Where Archaeology and Oral Tradition Coexist
via Sapiens, 11 August 2020: An interesting story out of Papua New Guinea that expands the idea of archaeology beyond ...
Archaeology of Gunung Bintang in Papua
via Tempo, 03 July 2020: Article in Bahasa talks about prehistoric research in the Papuan highlands by Wulf Schiefenhovel and ...
[Paper] Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea
via The Holocene, 12 May 2020: New paper describing starch residues on mortar and pestle fragments in Papua New Guinea ...
Papua New Guinea highland research redates Neolithic period
via EurekaAlerts, 17 April 2020: News release from the University of Otago on a new paper in Science Advances (see ...
[Paper] New find from New Guinea’s suggest independent Neolithic development and symbolic art
via Science Advances, 25 March 2020: New discoveries from the Waim archaeological site in Papua New Guinea suggest the emergence ...
The New Guinean Singing Dog
via Tempo, 14 January 2020: A feature on the New Guinean Singing Dog, a primitive dog breed closely related to ...
Stone tools in Papua dating 50,000 years
via Tempo, 25 December 2019: The stone tools in question are not a new find, they are from the Huon ...
Progress made on Partnership Addressing WWII Shipwrecks in the Pacific
via SPREP (South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), 19 November 2019: The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme is working on a ...
Small skulls point to human migration highway to Australia
via ANU News, 26 August 2019: More on the discovery of skulls from Alor Island. The paper from the Journal ...
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