A5079100231- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
University of Southern Queensland
2023-2024
University of Papua New Guinea
2017-2023
Monash University
2023
The settlement of Sahul, the lost continent Oceania, remains one most ancient and debated human migrations. Modern New Guineans inherited a unique genetic diversity tracing back 50,000 years, yet there is currently no model reconstructing their past population dynamics. We generated 58 new whole-genome sequences from Papua Guinea, filling geographical gaps in previous sampling, specifically to address alternative scenarios initial migration Sahul Guinea. Here, we present first genomic models...
The exchange of specialized items and the social connections those exchanges engender play a fundamental role in trajectories societal relations. Processual archaeologists developed core–periphery model to understand how these relations work. evoked complex "cores" "peripheries" at edges where with other cultures take place. rigidity modeling led emergence more nuanced network analyses explain qualitative as well quantitative dimensions cultural exchange. Yet contemporary models still focus...
This article presents archaeological data critical to our understanding of the pre-colonial past along northeast coast New Guinea. Two sites from coastal and offshore Madang, Papua Guinea, were excavated establish timing colonization by Bel (Austronesian) speakers, subsequent emergence their trade exchange networks leading up ethnographic accounts. These include Nunguri on Bilbil Island, formerly center expansive Madang (Bilbil) pottery network, Tilu, Malmal village, a consumption area...
Seafaring ceramicists connected widely spaced communities along the expanse of PNG's south coast for more than 1,500 years following arrival people using pots with Lapita decoration c.2,900 cal BP. Archaeological investigations at locations from Gulf Papua in west to Mailu Island east suggest a major change occurred seafaring and social relations after 1,200 The five centuries often referred as 'Ceramic Hiccup' were characterised by contraction scale formerly long-distance voyaging. Here we...
This paper presents preliminary results from the 2019 excavations at Walufeni Cave, eastern end of Great Papuan Plateau (GPP) in western Papua New Guinea. Preliminary dating and analysis unfinished Cave span Holocene probably continue into Late Pleistocene, confirming presence people on least Early potentially much earlier. The data presented here offer a site-specific model early intensive site use 10,000 years ago, then ephemeral use, followed by sustained occupation. Although there are...