Polynesians share close genetic relationship with Asians: Study

The Hindustan Times;  January 18, 2008 ;     605 words ......their special seafaring abilities in Island Melanesia, and how much they interacted with...Taiwan, moved through Indonesia to Island Melanesia, and then went out into the unknown...ancestors of Polynesians moved through Island Melanesia relatively rapidly and only intermixed...

Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle. Archaeology of the North, South and...

Archaeology in Oceania;  July 1, 2008 ;   Sand, Christophe;   787 words ......scenarios for the cultural chronology of Island Melanesia, it was not until the Vanuatu government...archaeologists working on ceramics in Island Melanesia. What appears first, as pointed out...about the prehistoric chronology of Island Melanesia. Bedford, relying on numero

Melanesian tribes vs. Polynesian chiefdoms: recent archaeological...

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific;  September 22, 2002 ;   Sand, Christophe;   787 words ......fieldwork carried out in several parts of Island Melanesia (see Fig. 1), which has begun to yield...facilitate comparison between the data from Island Melanesia to Polynesia, my presentation is divided...paper, I nevertheless use the term Island Melanesia in its broadest sense, as ...

The East Papuan languages: a preliminary typological appraisal.

Oceanic Linguistics;  June 1, 2002 ;   Dunn, Michael Reesink, Ger Terrill, Angela;   787 words ......paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their...spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50...the scattered Papuan languages of Island Melanesia To do this, we survey various structural...

Prehistory and its perception in a Melanesian Archipelago: the New...

Antiquity;  September 1, 2003 ;   Sand, Christophe Bole, Jacques Ouetcho, Andre;   787 words ......The Spaniards crossing the waters of Island Melanesia at the beginning of the seventeenth...the southern-most archipelago of Island Melanesia (Sand 1995), and then go on to highlight...1991). Although the northern part of Island Melanesia was settled over 30 000 years ago...

Of winds, worms and mana: the traditional calendar of the Torres Islands,...

Oceania;  June 1, 2004 ;   Mondragon, Carlos;   787 words ...APPROACHING THE MELANESIAN ENVIRONMENT THROUGH TIME Across Island Melanesia, people experience meteorological, celestial, oceanic and...construction of a particular 'calendar' in this region of Island Melanesia. (2) As regards the seasonal phenomena of the local Melanesian...

Oceanic rock art: first direct dating of prehistoric stencils and...

Antiquity;  September 1, 2006 ;   Sand, Christophe Valladas, Helene Cachier, Helene Tisnerat-Laborde, Nadine Arnold, Maurice Bole, Jacques Ouetcho, Andre;   787 words ......languages spread out through southern Island Melanesia, reaching what is now considered the...archaeological research programmes in Island Melanesia (Figure 1) had been concerned with...horticultural structures, etc.). But Island Melanesia is also renowned for its diverse rock...

Pacific Archeology: assessments and prospects.

Archaeology in Oceania;  April 1, 2005 ;   White, J. Peter;   783 words ......re-interpretation is Spriggs' review of post-Lapita research in island Melanesia. Picking up on themes in Julian Thomas' British Neolithic...develops yet further his persuasive account of Pleistocene Island Melanesia. Oppenheimer makes very good sense of the genetic data...

Oceania: Bibliography. Melanesia

Countries of the World;    Donald M. Seekins;   787 words ......Politics, Economics, and Ritual in Island Melanesia. Sydney: Academic Press, 1981...Politics, Economics, and Ritual in Island Melanesia. Sydney: Academic Press, 1981. Amarshi...Politics, Economics, and Ritual in Island Melanesia, Sydney: Academic Press, 1981. Baxter...

A 9.1-kb Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism Suggests a Common Pattern of...

Human Biology;  December 1, 2003 ;   Robledo, Renato; Scheinfeldt, Laura; Merriwether, D Andrew; Thompson, Francoise; Friedlaender, Jonathan;   787 words ......variation linked to both language and geographic distance in Island Melanesia. Inland Papuan-speaking populations from different islands...insertion/deletion polymorphism in 19 populations living in Island Melanesia. The populations studied inhabit the islands of New Britain...

Reconstructing Ancestral Oceanic Society.

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific;  September 22, 1999 ;   HAGE, PER;   787 words ......bilateral than commonly thought; and (2) Island Melanesia represents a continuation of Austronesian...view, the distinction between western Island Melanesia, the homeland of Ancestral Oceanic...consists of some 450 languages spoken in Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. The ...

A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  September 1, 2007 ;   Walsh, D S;   718 words ......New Britain, an experience which introduced them both to Island Melanesia. All but one of the fifteen contributions in the Social...with topics in the ethnography of societies in Polynesia, Island Melanesia and Papua New Guinea, a broad region in which, in one capacity...

(book review)

Archaeology in Oceania;  April 1, 2002 ;   White, J. Peter;   684 words ......indication of its scope. The twelve chapters range from the Pleistocene to the present in time and from island southeast Asia to island Melanesia in area. Focussed around archaeological data, there is a wide use of palaeoenvironmental, historical, ethnographic and...

Systems of nominal classification in East Papuan languages.

Oceanic Linguistics;  June 1, 2002 ;   Terrill, Angela;   787 words ......East Papuan languages, include all but one of the non-Austronesian languages spoken in the islands off the east of mainland...concord as one of the four features shared by the non-Austronesian languages of Island Melanesia (1962:371). Ross concurs with this view of ...

Statistical reasoning in the evaluation of typological diversity in Island...

Oceanic Linguistics;  December 1, 2007 ;   Dunn, Michael Foley, Robert Levinson, Stephen Reesink, Ger Terrill, Angela;   787 words ...This paper builds on a previous work in which we attempted to retrieve a phylogenetic signal using abstract structural features alone, as opposed to cognate sets, drawn from a sample of Island Melanesian languages, both Oceanic (Austronesian) and (non-Austronesian) Papuan (Science 2005 [309]: