West New Guinea: Social, Biological, and Material Histories

2024/09/12 by Marlin Tolla, Dylan Gaffney · 2 voices
Social Sciences · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

paper · doi:10.22459/ta58.2024

openalex publication_date 2024/09/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

This book explores the human past in West New Guinea (otherwise known as Indonesian Papua, West Papua, or Irian Jaya). The western part of New Guinea and its surrounding islands were critical for the early peopling of the Pacific region over 50,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens moved out of Africa and into Asia, seafaring through the islands of Wallacea as far as New Guinea,

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