scholarly journals Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce Barker ◽  
Lara Lamb ◽  
Bruno David ◽  
Kenneth Korokai ◽  
Alois Kuaso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
South Coast

scholarly journals Kumukumu 1, a hilltop site in the Aird Hills: Implications for occupational trends and dynamics in the Kikori River delta, south coast of Papua New Guinea

2015 ◽  
Vol 385 ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno David ◽  
Ken Aplin ◽  
Fiona Petchey ◽  
Robert Skelly ◽  
Jerome Mialanes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
River Delta ◽  
South Coast

How long have dogs been in Melanesia? New evidence from Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 102255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Manne ◽  
Bruno David ◽  
Fiona Petchey ◽  
Matthew Leavesley ◽  
Georgia Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
South Coast ◽  
New Evidence

Exploring subsistence and cultural complexes on the south coast of Papua New Guinea using palaeodietary analyses

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 904-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kinaston ◽  
Hallie Buckley ◽  
Andrew Gray ◽  
Ben Shaw ◽  
Herman Mandui
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South

Regional Interaction Networks in Southern Papua New Guinea During the Late Holocene: Evidence from the Chemical Characterisation of Chert Artefacts

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Sutton ◽  
Glenn Summerhayes ◽  
Anne Ford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Interaction Networks ◽  
South Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Cultural Changes

Over 40 years of archaeological investigations along the south coast of Papua New Guinea has identified a rapid succession of cultural changes during the late Holocene. The so-called ‘Papuan Hiccup’ (c. 1200–800 cal bp) is a poorly understood period of socio-economic upheaval along the coast, identified mainly from changes in archaeological ceramic styles and settlement patterns. During this period, the region-wide Early Papuan Pottery (EPP) tradition diverges into separate, localised ceramic sequences that have generic associations with local ethnographic wares. A correspondence between the timing of the Papuan Hiccup and a period of peak El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) activity implies a link between cultural and climate change. This paper explores this relationship further by examining changes in interaction networks along the south coast of Papua New Guinea, specifically focusing on chert artefacts. Chemical characterisation (portable X-Ray Fluorescence; pXRF) and technological analysis are used to map changes in lithic technology over time, including access to raw materials and technological organisation, at the site of Taurama, a prehistoric coastal village site that was occupied both prior to and after the Papuan Hiccup. Although the sample sizes are small and the interpretations necessarily circumscribed, it is argued that changes in the number of chert sources being exploited and in the intensity of core reduction at Taurama may be related to climate change in the region.

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