Mortars and Pestles Make the Mid-Holocene Occupation of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago Visible

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Swadling
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Land Clearance

Stone mortars and pestles are distributed across New Guinea, but few have been found in West Papua. As they are now securely dated to the Mid-Holocene, their distribution can be used as the basis for modelling Mid-Holocene population concentrations. Artefacts with elaborate morphologies also allow the modelling of social interaction. The declining availability of the Castanopsis nut following land clearance would have played a major role in the abandonment of mortars and pestles in the highlands. Decreasing coastal connectivity due to the infilling of the Sepik-Ramu inland sea may have also played a role in this abandonment. The continued availability of canarium and coconuts in coastal areas allowed the making of nut and starch puddings to continue. However, the pottery bought by Austronesian speakers (Lapita) would have allowed tubers to be steam-cooked, and the softer result probably led to stone versions of mortars and pestles being abandoned and replaced with wooden versions.

Species of Dacini recorded from Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua (West Papua, Central Papua, Papua), Associated Islands and Bougainville.

2022 ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Richard A. I. Drew ◽  
Meredith C. Romig
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Torres Strait

Abstract This chapter presents the species of Dacini recorded from Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua (West Papua, Central Papua, Papua), associated islands and Bougainville. Some species have only been recorded from the former Irian Jaya (now Indonesian Papua = West Papua, Central Papua, Papua). Most species are distributed across mainland Papua New Guinea and Indonesian Papua, with some species endemic to islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. Records for Torres Strait Islands are only included for those located within the border of Papua New Guinea.

scholarly journals Deilagaon, a New Genus of Indo-Malayan and Papuan Fig Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae)

1977 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.T. Wiebes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Fig Wasps ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago

Introduction of the new genus Deilagaon with descriptions of new species chrysolepidis (type-species) from the Philippines (type-locality Luzon, ex Ficus chrysolepis Miq.), Celebes, New Guinea (ex F. novoguineensis Corner), Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Isis.; and annulatae from Thailand, Malaya (ex F.depressa Bl.), Sumatra, Borneo (type-locality N. Borneo, ex F. annulata Bl.), Philippines. Included is also Ceratosolen megarhopalus Grandi (1923) from Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines (Balabac Isl.).

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 ‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Ceridwen Spark
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Impact

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.

scholarly journals Sandline's mercenaries helped Kopassus

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Peter Cronau
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Special Forces ◽  
West Papua

  Mercenaries expelled from Papua New Guinea in 1997 had worked a year earlier in West Papua assisting Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces troops in an operation that caused many civilian deaths. 

Papua and New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago

1944 ◽  
pp. 394-405
Author(s):  
JAMES STEVENS SIMMONS ◽  
TOM F. WHAYNE ◽  
GAYLORD WEST ANDERSON ◽  
HAROLD MACLACHLAN HORACK
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago

New species of Nesocricos and Tanycricos (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cheirochelinae: Tanycricini) in the mountains of West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1714 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
ROBERT W. SITES ◽  
SUPUTA _
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mountain Streams ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of Tanycricini are described from mountain streams of Indonesian New Guinea. Both species were collected at 1,348 m elevation from Ingging River in West Papua. Nesocricos ingging Sites n.sp. was represented by macropterous and submacropterous forms. Tanycricos inequalis Sites n.sp. was represented by macropterous and brachypterous forms. Nesocricos evops La Rivers is reported from the Baliem Valley of Indonesian New Guinea.

Limbodessus skalei sp. nov., a new diving beetle species from the west Papuan Archipelago (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
LARS HENDRICH ◽  
SURIANI SURBAKTI ◽  
MICHAEL BALKE
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
The West ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Diving Beetle

Here we describe Limbodessus skalei sp. nov. from the island of Waigeo, off the coast of West Papua. It can be easily distinguished from the nearby New Guinea mainland species as well as the other members of the genus by its small size and testaceous elytra with conspicuous darker broad basal and subapical patches. Altogether four Limbodessus species are now known from the New Guinea region. 

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