Archaeological and paleo-environmental investigations in the Aitape area of northern Papua New Guinea, 2014

Summary

We report on archaeological and paleo-environmental fieldwork carried out in the area around Aitape, northern Papua New Guinea during June and July of 2014, targeted at understanding human response to environmental and climatic variability during the mid- to late-Holocene. We employ a multi-proxy approach to paleo-environmental reconstruction including geochemical and paleo-botanical analysis of stream and river bank sediments to examine local manifestations of Holocene climatic variability and geomorphological change stemming from tectonic activity. Excavations carried out at rock shelters on the slopes of uplifted limestone hills provide new data on settlement and subsistence practices during the last two millennia of prehistory in the area, including evidence for connection into wider regional interaction networks.

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Archaeological and paleo-environmental investigations in the Aitape area of northern Papua New Guinea, 2014. Mark Golitko, Ethan Cochrane, Shaun Williams, Jason Kariwiga. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397397)

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Oceania

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min long: 111.973; min lat: -52.052 ; max long: -87.715; max lat: 53.331 ;