Upper Sepik News Today

A study of prehistoric Russian bone pendants has revealed some of the bone jewelry was made with human bones, inspiring ideas about the Stone Age worldview.

The Sepik River takes an unhurried 1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles, to snake from the lush highland rainforests of western Papua New Guinea, swerving momentarily across the border into Indonesia’s Papua province, before wending out to the mangroves abutting the Bismarck Sea on the northern coast of New Guinea Island. Along the way, the river […]