For over forty years, archaeologists working along Papua New Guinea's southern coastline
have sought evidence for early ceramics and its relationship with Lapita wares of Island …

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work
by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in …

This is a preliminary excavation report on the Kasasinabwana shell midden of Wari Island.
We seek to establish a chronological history of prehistoric ceramics in southern Massim in …

This paper describes a decorated carinated vessel excavated at the Teouma Lapita site, on
the south coast of Efate, central Vanuatu. The vessel contained human bones and, following …

In the early 1900s thirteen engraved Conus shell valuables were dug from prehistoric
midden mounds in Oro Province. Since the early 1970s nineteen undated surface finds have …

Islands present significant technological and ecological challenges for long-term human
settlement, with archaeological investigations of islands globally able to shed light on the …

West Fergusson obsidian has been identified in a number of Lapita and Early Papuan
pottery (EPP) sites on the south coast of Papua New Guinea and wider afield in the Pacific …

The consumption of human flesh, popularly defined as cannibalism, has arguably occurred
throughout much of human history. In New Guinea, it has been associated ethnographically …

The system of exchange known as the Kula ring practised in recent times by the Trobriand
Islanders has provided a powerful model for anthropology, but its roots in prehistory have …

Over the last decade the concept of community archaeology has become a worldwide
phenomenon; a convenient tagline largely describing the involvement of non-archaeologists …