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Scientists think they may have found the smoking gun that explains why humans colonised the thousands of scattered islands of the South Pacific - and it lies in a sherd of pottery found hidden on a small island in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The...
The discovery of pottery from the ancient Lapita culture by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) has shed new light on how Papua New Guinea (PNG) served as a launching pad for the colonisation of the Pacific – one of the greatest migrations in human history. The new study makes clear the initial expansion of the Lapita people throughout PNG was far greater
Archaeologists say find of tools and bones changes our understanding of the Lapita people, the first to make landfall in Remote Oceania
Ancient pottery sherds on an island off Papua New Guinea hint at the trigger for one of humanity's most epic migration stories.
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