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Kamgot
The Face of Lapita: a photograph of a modelled clay head recovered from this site in Babase, New Ireland.Kuk
Excavations at this site in the Kuk swamp have provided information about agriculture methods to 9,000 years bp, from Australian National University.
The University of Sydney
Conducts research in Papua New Guinea, Jordan, Cambodia, and Australia, offers BSc, MPhil and PhD programs.Australian National University
Department of Archaeology and Natural Science, conducts research in Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and southeast Asia.
Wal Ambrose
Australian National University, elemental analysis of obsidian from Papua New Guinea Recent to Pleistocene archaeological sites.Chris Gosden and John Webb
The Creation of a Papua New Guinean Landscape: Archaeological and Geomorphological Evidence, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.Geoffery S. Hope
Australian National University, interests in vegetation history and the historical biogeography of Australian and Pacific biota, and the effects of prehistoric people on their environment, and the contribution of palaeoecology to archaeology; the Western Pacific, montane New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and Bass Strait regions.Terry Hunt
University of Hawai'i, prehistorical research in Hawai'i, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.Dana Lepofsky
Simon Fraser University, the relationship between intensification of food production, increasing social stratification, and competition in the complex Society Islands chiefdoms.Glenn Summerhayes
Australian National University, archaeological excavations and surveying of Kamgot, an extensive Lapita site on Babase Island, Anir Group (also known as the Feni Group, east of New Ireland), article in ANU Archaeology Online.John Edward Terrell and Robert Welsch
A long introductory clip from an Antiquity article on the Lapita culture.Robin Torrence
University of Sydney, a field school on Garua IslandTransitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia & Papua New Guinea
An entire issue of Antiquity, edited by Jim Allen and James F. O'Connell; only the table of contents is available online.
The Archaeology of the Trobriand Islanders
From the University of Gotland, comprehensive investigations of several cultural periods. English and Swedish.Kupei Goldmine
An alluvial goldmine in Bougainville, the Kupei Goldmine is used as a framework for a brief history of Papua New Guinea; from Heritage Archaeology. Best viewed in Microsoft Explorer.
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