Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland

David, Bruno; Aplin, Ken; Peck, Helene; Skelly, Robert; Leavesley, Matthew; Mialanes, Jerome; Szabó, Katherine; Koppel, Brent; Petchey, Fiona; Richards, Thomas; Ulm, Sean; McNiven, Ian J.; Rowe, Cassandra; Aird, Samantha J.; Faulkner, Patrick; Ford, Anne

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“…S3 , Supplementary Material online) ( Nagle et al 2016 ; Pedro et al 2020 ; Brucato et al 2021 ). More recent contact was also possible during the rapid spread of the Lapita Cultural Complex, which originated in the Bismarck Archipelago 3.3 kya ( Denham et al 2012 ), spread to the south Papuan Coast 2.9 kya ( David et al 2019 ), and may have subsequently influenced islands off the Queensland coast by 2.5 kya ( Lilley 2019 ).…”

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Episodes of Diversification and Isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian Male Lineages

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Flores

Hudjashov

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Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Island Southeast Asia and Oceania host one of the world’s richest assemblages of human phenotypic, linguistic and cultural diversity. Despite this, the region’s male genetic lineages are globally among the last to remain unresolved. We compiled ∼9.7 Mb of Y chromosome sequence from a diverse sample of over 380 men from this region, including 152 first reported here. The granularity of this dataset allows us to fully resolve and date the regional Y chromosome phylogeny. This new high-resolution tree confirms two main population bursts: multiple rapid diversifications following the region’s initial settlement ∼50 kya, and extensive expansions <6 kya. Notably, ∼40-25 kya the deep rooting local lineages of C-M130, M-P256, and S-B254 show almost no further branching events in Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia, matching a similar pause in diversification seen in maternal mitochondrial DNA lineages. The main local lineages start diversifying ∼25 kya, at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum. This improved Y chromosome topology highlights localized events with important historical implications, including pre-Holocene contact between Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, potential interactions between Australia and the Papuan world, and a sustained period of diversification following the flooding of the ancient Sunda and Sahul continents as the insular landscape observed today formed. The high-resolution phylogeny of the Y chromosome presented here thus enables a detailed exploration of past isolation, interaction and change in one of the world’s least understood regions.

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Episodes of Diversification and Isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian Male Lineages

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Flores

Hudjashov

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Molecular Biology and Evolution

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“…On the Papuan south coast, three Caution Bay sites have yielded multiple dentate‐stamped sherds (David et al., 2019) that have led to an inconclusive debate about the timing and nature of the extension of the Lapita Cultural Complex to this region (Australian Archaeology Forum, 2012). At Hopo in the Gulf of Papua five of 3889 excavated sherds are considered to be dentate‐stamped or alternatively comb‐impressed and to date to c.2600 BP (Skelly et al., 2014).…”

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A dentate‐stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua

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Miamba

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Archaeology in Oceania

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The chance recovery of a large pottery sherd from a flat-bottomed dish with dentate-stamped decoration in Galley Reach, about 50 km northwest of Port Moresby, raises interesting questions concerning interactions between Lapita arrivals and the established Melanesian communities of mainland Papua New Guinea. While the geographical proximity of the find to the Caution Bay Lapita sites would suggest some connection, an analysis of the sherd indicates that it may be older than Lapita at Caution Bay. Comparisons with Island Melanesian Lapita sites indicate that the sherd is mid-to late Lapita in age, both in its form and decoration. As such, it joins the corpus of chance PNG mainland and near mainland Lapita finds of similar age. This developing pattern may have a different genesis to the Lapita dispersal into Remote Oceania and instead reflect trade-based connections between island and mainland communities in the first millennium BC. The data remain ambiguous on this point.

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“…BP (McNiven et al, 2012) and Moiapu 3 dating between 2410-2630 cal. BP (David et al, 2019). Edubu 1 has two sherds with parallel shell impressed lines, and one sherd with a more complex design that includes central horizontal lines of shell impression, with inverted triangles beneath this centre, and V-shapes turned on their side above (McNiven et al, 2012: fig.…”

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Avanata: a possible Late Lapita site on Fergusson Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen

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Miamba³

2021

Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., Online

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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. Yet, the archaeological history of the island and its obsidian sources remains mostly unknown. Recent fieldwork aimed at establishing a chronological sequence for human occupation of the island, identified the site of Avanata, on the south coast of the Kukuia Peninsula. It has a pottery assemblage decorated with shell impression and paint, techniques not previously recorded on Massim pottery. Although no dateable material was obtained from the site, we argue that archaeological correlates on the Papuan mainland indicate that Avanata belongs to an early ceramic occupation of Fergusson Island dating > 1000 years ago and possibly to the late Lapita period.

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Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland

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Episodes of Diversification and Isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian Male Lineages

Episodes of Diversification and Isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian Male Lineages

A dentate‐stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua

Avanata: a possible Late Lapita site on Fergusson Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen

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