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Article: Pleistocene colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago: new evidence from West New Britain.
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- Archaeology in Oceania
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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Abstract
The geological and archaeological signatures at the site of Kupona na Dari on the Willaumez Peninsula, West New Britain provide important new data about human colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago. Analyses of the stratigraphy and weathering of paleosols and manuports, when combined with fission track, radiocarbon, and luminescence dating, indicate that the site was first occupied at about 35-45,000 years ago. During the whole period of occupation, people were exposed to a series of volcanic events which varied in terms of their potential impacts on the local environment. A PIXE-PIGME characterisation study of the obsidian artefacts at the site ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Rabaul
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...Rabaul , town (1990 pop. 17,044), on New Britain island, Bismarck Archipelago , a part of Papua New Guinea. Situated within ... also severely damaged, and the capital of East New Britain prov., which was formerly in the city, was ...
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