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The first decade in New Guinea archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jim Allen
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Immediately to the north of Australia, the island of New Guinea forms the largest single land mass in the cultural area known as Melanesia (FIG. I). Politically the island is divided; to the west is the Indonesian state of West Irian, to the east is the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, at present administered by the Australian Government. While such political boundaries are disregarded as a matter of course in attempting to reconstruct the prehistory of the area, the development of archaeological research reflects, and has been impeded by, this artificial division.

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Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 183 , September 1972 , pp. 180 - 190
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1972

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