Before, during and after Lapita: 5000 years of cultural continuity and transformation at Caution Bay, southern Papua New Guinea [ 2013-01-01 - 2017-02-28 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Bruno David (Chief Investigator-Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award )

Brief description Before, during and after Lapita: 5000 years of cultural continuity and transformation at Caution Bay, southern Papua New Guinea. Australia's closest Indigenous neighbours in southern Papua New Guinea have long been thought to have been in contact with long-distance seafarers only in the last 2000 years. This project will document recent archaeological findings that are causing a radical rethink of ancestral connections between Australia and southern Papua New Guinea.

Funding Amount $760,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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