Geochemistry and mineralogy of the sediments in the New Britain shelf-trench continuum, offshore Papua New Guinea: Insights into sediment provenance and burial in hadal trenches

The growing story of early settlement in the northwest Pacific islands is moving from coastal sites into the rainforest. Evidence of Pleistocene cultural layers have been discovered in open-site excavations at Yombon, an area containing shifting hamlets, in West New Britain's interior tropical rainforest. These sites, the oldest in New Britain, may presently stand as the oldest open sites discovered in rainforest anywhere in the world.

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Enacting the Absent State: State-formation on the oil-palm frontier of Pomio (Papua New Guinea)

10.31235/osf.io/zgrnq ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tuomas Tammisto

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

State Formation ◽

Oil Palm ◽

New Guinea ◽

The State ◽

Rural District ◽

Top Down ◽

Active Worker ◽

The Relationship ◽

New Britain

Tammisto, Tuomas 2016. Enacting the Absent State: State-formation on the oil-palm frontier of Pomio (Papua New Guinea). Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 62: 51-68. In this article I examine the relationship between new oil-palm plantations and state-formation in Pomio, a remote rural district of East New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea). I am particularly interested in the kinds of spaces of governance produced by the new oil-palm plantations and how this contributes to state formation and territorialisation in Pomio.Plantations in Pomio do not became state-like spaces as a result of top-down processes alone, but also because of active worker initiatives. By contributing to state formation in this way, the inhabitants of Pomio also make claims on what the state should be like. While plantations become governable and statelike spaces, they do not produce simply governable subjects, nor do they produce a uniformly governable territory but an uneven space in which some places are more governable than others. The inhabitants of Pomio move between these places in their pursuit of different goals.

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OUTBREAK OF METHANOL AND ISOPROPANOL POISONING IN NEW BRITAIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The Medical Journal of Australia ◽

10.5694/j.1326-5377.1980.tb131812.x ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 36-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Euan M. Scrimgeour

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

New Guinea ◽

New Britain

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Archaeological Work in the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Provincey Papua New Guinea, December 1989 February 1990

Australian Archaeology ◽

10.1080/03122417.1990.11681365 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 37-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Chris Gosden

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

New Guinea ◽

Archaeological Work ◽

New Britain

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Awareness of personal height and weight among community-dwelling people in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

Tropical Doctor ◽

10.1177/0049475520932195 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 337-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Takashi Saito ◽

Angelberth Bai ◽

Nobuko Matsui ◽

Kazuhiro P Izawa

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

New Guinea ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Measurement Scales ◽

Specific Population ◽

Management Interventions ◽

Measurement Tools ◽

Average Body Mass ◽

New Britain ◽

Average Body

We investigated the accessibility of height- and weight-measurement tools and the awareness of one's own height and weight in a specific population in West New Britain Province (WNBP), Papua New Guinea, where obesity is prevalent. Of 558 participants (mean age 34.8 ± 14.0 years, 48.2% women, average body mass index =25.1 ± 4.83 kg/m2), >70% had limited access to measurement scales and 97.5% lacked accurate knowledge of their own height and weight. Our findings imply that increased access to measurement tools and awareness of personal height and weight is necessary to improve the feasibility and effectiveness of weight-management interventions in areas such as WNBP.

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