[Free book] Forty Years in the South Seas
"Forty Years in the South Seas" honors Glenn Summerhayes’ research on Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific, highlighting key ...
Tag: Papua New Guinea
Country in eastern New Guinea Island
[Paper] Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul
Advanced simulations shed light on early human migration into Sahul, suggesting movement across ancient Australia and New Guinea followed natural ...
Australian World War II soldiers’ partial remains recovered off Kokoda Track, grave sites untouched for 80 years
via ABC News, 25 July 2023: Australian archaeologists recovered partial remains of 15 World War II soldiers on the Kokoda ...
World Archaeology: Islands and Hominin Adaptation
The latest issue of World Archaeology has the theme of Islands and Hominin Adaptation, with a number of papers related ...
Inside the complex rescue mission for an Australian professor taken hostage by armed bandits in the PNG jungle
via ABC News, 26 February 2023: It is with great relief that Prof. Bryce Barker and his assistants have been ...
Australian archaeology professor and others taken hostage in highlands of Papua New Guinea
via Reuters and other sources, 20 February 2023: A developing story about hostages taken in the highlands of Papua New ...
New insights on ancient people movements in the super-continent of Sahul
via ABC News, 15 February 2023: A radio story about the relatively fast migrations of humans through Sahul.
[Book] Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast
via UH Press, a new book by Chris Urwin looks at ethnoarchaeology in Orokolo Bay of Papua New Guinea.
Should the Australian Museum return Papuan artefacts?: The call for the return of sacred objects stolen from Papua by Frank Hurley poses uncomfortable questions for Australia’s museums
via The Monthly, November 2022: The repatriation debate around Papuan objects in Australian museums
[Paper] Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas
via Frontiers in Plant Science, 07 October 2022: A new paper suggests that bananas, domesticated in Papua New Guinea, have ...
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