Archaeozoological Records for the Highlands of New Guinea: A Review of Current Evidence

Sutton, Alice; Mountain, Mary‐Jane; Aplin, Ken; Bulmer, Susan; Denham, Tim

doi:10.1080/03122417.2009.11681900

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“…) and throughout New Guinea (Sutton et al. ). Today, extant species of Zaglossus are reliably known only from New Guinea, where until recently they occurred over much of the island (Flannery ).…”

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“…The fossil record of long-beaked echidnas indicates a wide geographical distribution in the late Quaternary, with fossils recovered from across the Australian mainland (Price and Webb 2006;Helgen et al 2012) and throughout New Guinea (Sutton et al 2009). Today, extant species of Zaglossus are reliably known only from New Guinea, where until recently they occurred over much of the island (Flannery 1995).…”

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Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

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Corlett

Price

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Ecology and Evolution

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Alarm over the prospects for survival of species in a rapidly changing world has encouraged discussion of translocation conservation strategies that move beyond the focus of ‘at-risk’ species. These approaches consider larger spatial and temporal scales than customary, with the aim of recreating functioning ecosystems through a combination of large-scale ecological restoration and species introductions. The term ‘rewilding’ has come to apply to this large-scale ecosystem restoration program. While reintroductions of species within their historical ranges have become standard conservation tools, introductions within known paleontological ranges—but outside historical ranges—are more controversial, as is the use of taxon substitutions for extinct species. Here, we consider possible conservation translocations for nine large-bodied taxa in tropical Asia-Pacific. We consider the entire spectrum of conservation translocation strategies as defined by the IUCN in addition to rewilding. The taxa considered are spread across diverse taxonomic and ecological spectra and all are listed as ‘endangered’ or ‘critically endangered’ by the IUCN in our region of study. They all have a written and fossil record that is sufficient to assess past changes in range, as well as ecological and environmental preferences, and the reasons for their decline, and they have all suffered massive range restrictions since the late Pleistocene. General principles, problems, and benefits of translocation strategies are reviewed as case studies. These allowed us to develop a conservation translocation matrix, with taxa scored for risk, benefit, and feasibility. Comparisons between taxa across this matrix indicated that orangutans, tapirs, Tasmanian devils, and perhaps tortoises are the most viable taxa for translocations. However, overall the case studies revealed a need for more data and research for all taxa, and their ecological and environmental needs. Rewilding the Asian-Pacific tropics remains a controversial conservation strategy, and would be difficult in what is largely a highly fragmented area geographically.

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Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

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Corlett

Price

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Ecology and Evolution

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“…The site was excavated by O. Christensen in 1972Christensen in -1973 and the abundant faunal assemblage was analysed in an unpublished thesis by Aplin in 1981 (see Sutton et al, 2009). The small lithic assemblage has not been studied.…”

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Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

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Manne

Attenbrow

2016

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“…While a number of archaeological digs gave been carried out in Papua New Guinea and nearby archipelagos to the east (c.f. Sutton et al 2009), very limited archaeological work has been done in western (Indonesian) New Guinea or the islands directly to the west which would enable us to identify the pre-historic presence of non-native flora and fauna species (Spriggs, 1995;Pasveer, Clarke and Miller, 2002;White, 2004). Indigenous groups do not have writing traditions, and while European explorers made occasional landfall in Papua beginning in the 16th century (Spriggs, 1998) in conjunction with the spice trade -for example Miguel Roxo de Brito in the early 1580s -the Dutch did not claim colonial sovereignty until 1828.…”

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Borrowed Color and Flora/Fauna Terminology in Northwest New Guinea

Gasser

2020

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The northwestern part of the island of New Guinea has been the site of intense contact between a hugely diverse set of languages. Languages from at least nine non-Austronesian families (plus several isolates) are spoken alongside Austronesian languages from the South Halmahera-West New Guinea branch, which arrived in the region roughly 3500 years ago. This paper looks at lexical items in the semantic areas of flora, fauna, and color terms and catalogues apparent loans between 52 of these languages, some relatively widespread (‘crocodile’, ‘chicken’, ‘dog’) and some much more limited in their scope. So far as the direction of borrowing can be established, the patterns of shared forms indicate ongoing lexical transfer across the region with a strong preference for Austronesian-to-Papuan borrowing, suggesting a historical pattern of Austronesian cultural influence in the region.

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Archaeozoological Records for the Highlands of New Guinea: A Review of Current Evidence

Cited by 41 publications

References 54 publications

Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

Borrowed Color and Flora/Fauna Terminology in Northwest New Guinea

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