Papua New Guinea archaeology
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Most cited papers in Papua New Guinea archaeology
Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0713-8 via Open Access This paper investigates how coastal mobility and a community's place within regional trade networks intersect with technological organisation. To do this,... more
Shell valuable exchange in the New Guinea Highlands has been a key interest in anthropology, providing insight into economics, aesthetics, and social stratification among banded communities. This article describes how shell exchange at... more
Lithic assemblages in late Pleistocene sites within rainforest environments in Southeast Asia and Aus-tralasia are characterised as being simple core-and-flake technologies with little evidence for formal tools. This is usually attributed... more
The introduction and exchange of pottery between Pacific Islands can provide insight into interaction and social organisation from both regional and local perspectives. In the Massim island region of far eastern Papua New Guinea, pottery... more
Small-scale excavationwas undertaken at the Malakai site on the small island of Nimowa, located in the Louisiade Archipelago, Massim region, Papua New Guinea. This is the first excavation to be reported in detail from the archipelago,with... more
New Guineans represent one of the oldest locally continuous populations outside Africa, harboring among the greatest linguistic and genetic diversity on the planet. Archeological and genetic evidence suggest that their ancestors reached... more
Bone daggers were once widespread in New Guinea. Their purpose was both symbolic and utilitarian; they functioned as objects of artistic expression with the primary function of stabbing and killing people at close quarters. Most daggers... more
Existing archaeobotanical and palynological records of plant use in the northern New Guinea lowlands are reviewed in light of recent work at Kuk and theoretical refocusing on plant use practice. A practice-based approach is supported as... more
Until now, the evidence for imported obsidian along the south coast of Papua New Guinea has been limited to eleven excavated sites all dating after c. 2,000 cal. BP. Here we present new archaeological evidence for the sourcing and... more
Recent research in the Ivane Valley has shown that it was first occupied during the late Pleistocene between 43-49,000 years calBP, making this area one of the earliest colonised in Papua New Guinea. At an altitude of 2000 metres above... more
... famous by Bronislaw Malinowski (1922) and described in almost all introductory anthropology textbooks, continues to operate in Milne Bay Province ... the stone arrangement had been dug into the natural clay base, which was completely... more
This paper examines a central concern in archaeological research: the interplay between technological and social flux over the longue durée. This is done by describing ceramic technological continuity and change, and its correspondence... more
Song and dance are a traditional means of strengthening culture and passing knowledge to successive generations in the Torres Strait of northeastern Australia. Dances incorporate a range of apparatuses to enhance the performance, such as... more
This technical manual provides instructions for implementing bucket flotation programs in remote archaeological sites in the tropics
This book details investigations into the archaeology of Madang District, Papua New Guinea. Specifically, several important archaeological sites on the coast and offshore islands are examined. In 2014, the authors completed a survey... more
This paper analyzes the transformational process of two pottery-making traditions during the last thousand years in the eastern Papua New Guinea by applying the typological method. This paper consists of three sections. First, after... more
Permanent link to open access version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10586 Materialising Ancestral Madang documents the emergence of pottery production processes and exchange networks along the northeast coast of New Guinea during the last... more
This paper is the first ethnographic description of ceramic sago oven production in the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. These rectilinear ovens are widespread throughout eastern Indonesia, used to bake sago flour into small 'cakes, '... more