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.

A new species of Heminicsara (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Agraeciini) from West Papua (New Guinea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
SIGFRID INGRISCH ◽  
CAHYO RAHMADI ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
A New Species

Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus genus group. It currently comprises 62 species from mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo in West Papua, Indonesia, a new species of Heminicsara is described here: Heminicsara incrassata sp. nov. It is most readily characterised from congeners and other species of the Axylus genus group by the male tenth abdominal tergite forming a large shield-shaped plate. This represents the first species of Heminicsara described and known from the south-west of New Guinea.  

scholarly journals Modern and Pleistocene Reservoir Ages Inferred from South Pacific Corals

Radiocarbon ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
G S Burr ◽  
J W Beck ◽  
Thierry Corrège ◽  
G Cabioch ◽  
F W Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
Surface Ocean ◽  
Reservoir Age ◽  
Age Determinations

This paper presents radiocarbon results from modern South Pacific corals from the Marquesas Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and Easter Island. All of the measurements are from pre-bomb Porites corals that lived during the 1940s and 1950s. The data reflect subannual to multiannual surface ocean 14C variability and allow for precise, unambiguous reservoir age determinations. The results are compared with published values from other coral records throughout the South Pacific, with striking consistency. By comparisons with other published values, we identify 3 South Pacific regions with uniform pre-bomb reservoir ages (1945 to 1955). These are 1) the Central Equatorial South Pacific (361.6 − 8.2 14C yr, 2 σ); 2) the Western Equatorial South Pacific (322.1 − 8.6 14C yr, 2 σ); and 3) the subtropical Pacific (266.8 − 13.8 14C yr, 2 σ).

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