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Papua New Guinea Witchcraft: Ancient Spirits and Deadly Modern Witch Hunts Live On
Papua New Guinea is one of the few places in the world where literal witch hunts still take place on a regular basis. Papua New Guinea is one of the few places in the world where ...
Caleb Strom - 14/04/2021 - 15:44
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5000-Year-Old Papua New Guinea Artifacts Rewrite Neolithic History
Scientists unearth ancient Papua New Guinea artifacts in the highlands of the island that settle ...
ashley cowie - 26/03/2020 - 16:27
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Singing Dogs Study May Tell Us More About Human Vocalization
A new study of a rare, unique breed of domesticated dog, originally from Papua New Guinea and believed to be extinct decades ago, has found ...
Ed Whelan - 02/09/2020 - 00:00
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Genetic Evidence Suggests a Denisovan Presence in the Pacific Islands
A new genetic study has provided important data to evolutionary ... that seems to link people living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG) with the famed Denisovans , the long-extinct ...
Nathan Falde - 24/04/2021 - 14:59
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Diet of human brains helped Papua New Guinea tribe to resist disease
The investigation of a Papua New Guinea tribe, formerly infamous for eating human brains as ...
Robin Whitlock - 16/06/2018 - 00:36
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Honoring and Negating the Dead through Malangan in Papua New Guinea
... either represent the elaborate memorial festivals held in New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) in honor of deceased members of a clan The term ...
Daniel Gauss - 09/05/2023 - 18:39
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Sculpting The Geological, Archaeological And Cultural Landscape Of Papua New Guinea
The sculpturing of the geography of Papua New Guinea did not end with the eruption of the volcanos. In ...
micki pistorius - 14/10/2022 - 21:12
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Oceania’s Papua New Guinea: Forged In Volcanic Fire
... realm in the Pacific Ocean includes Australia, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia, and several Pacific island groups - including Papua New Guinea – all scattered along the Ring of Fire The ...
micki pistorius - 10/10/2022 - 21:41
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Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River Rituals
... Victor Emanuel Mountain Range in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Sepik River receives many tributaries along its ...
micki pistorius - 12/10/2022 - 18:14
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6,000-Year-Old Skull is Earliest Known Victim of a Tsunami
... a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Their skull was found in ...
ancient-origins - 29/10/2017 - 22:02
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16 Creepy Masks Made from Real Human Skulls
... a common practice in areas of Oceania and particularly in Papua New Guinea. Overmodelled skull from Vanuatu. Other materials used ...
Joanna Gillan - 10/12/2022 - 17:59
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Ancient Humans Bred Dangerous Cassowaries 18,000 Years Ago for Their Lunch
Roughly 18,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in New Guinea loved nothing more than a good fried egg and a lump of ... is a large, flightless bird native to Australia and Papua New Guinea . With a 10-centimeter-long (4-inch-long) ...
ashley cowie - 03/10/2021 - 22:35
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The Duk Duk: An Ancient Secret Society of Possessed Executioners
The Duk Duk is a secret society of the Tolai people in Papua New Guinea. This ancient secret sect has played an important ...
dhwty - 19/02/2019 - 18:37
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Pterodactyl of New Guinea
... of the pterodactyl, a genus of pterosaur, in modern New Guinea . Depiction of a dragon from 1588. ( Public domain ) ... modern evidence; people on the island of Umboi between Papua New Guinea and New Britain, claim the Ropen secretes a ...
Shalee Britton - 03/02/2021 - 18:00
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6,000-year-old carved phallus artefacts found in Papua New Guinea
Archaeologists in Papua New Guinea have made a rare discovery – six ceremonial tools ... Holloway 6,000-year-old carved phallus artefacts found in Papua New Guinea ...
aprilholloway - 25/11/2013 - 23:51
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New Barrier Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe
A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has ... with the era when the Lapita people residing in southern Papua New Guinea were renowned for their pottery-making skills. This ...
Sahir - 13/04/2024 - 17:53
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DNA Study Unravels Mystery Behind Origins of First Pacific Islanders
... of Temple University and George Koki of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Ancient Denisovan DNA discovered in modern Pacific ...
ancient-origins - 05/10/2016 - 00:40
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A Trove of New Denisovan Discoveries Revealed At A Recent Anthropological Conference
... there were in fact seven major presentations that offered new insights into the enigmatic world of the Denisovans, ... genomes of 161 people from 14 groups in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea shows that their earliest ancestors interbred with a ...
Andrew Collins - 03/04/2019 - 22:53
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Modern Humans Could Have Mated With Denisovans as Recently as 15,000 Years Ago
... legacy in a population ranging from “the Philippines and New Guinea to China and Tibet have inherited 3% to 5% of their ... DNA from Denisovan populations in samples of Papuans from New Guinea. After studying the results using statistical ...
Ed Whelan - 01/04/2019 - 22:57
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Virtual Reality Tracks 75,000-Year-Old Footsteps of Sahul Explorers
... of Sahul, which once comprised Australia and New Guinea. This story begins around 75,000 and 50,000 years ago ... including social and religious customs.” Oceania’s Papua New Guinea: Forged in Volcanic Fire How to Get to ...
ashley cowie - 08/02/2023 - 13:58