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        Dept of Education

        Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

        A Basic Education For All (EFA) is critical if all citizens are to participate in a modern society. This is a right for all children, both boys and girls, in Papua New Guinea as stated in...
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        Early human adaptation

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        Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago
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        World Heritate Site

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        Management Plan for Kuk World Heritage Site
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        Ramsar Sites

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        Ramsar and wetlands
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        Tourism

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        Pacific tourism
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        Indigeneous knowledge

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        We present the first large-scale synthesis of indigenous knowledge (IK) on New Guinea’s useful plants based on a quantitative review of 488 references and 854 herbarium specimens....
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        Kokoda Initiative

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        The Kokoda Initiative is a partnership between the Government of Papua New Guinea and Australia to sustainably develop and protect the Kokoda Track and the surrounding Owen Stanley...
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        Sex affiliation and its implications in Koiari

        Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

        THE present paper discusses a form of social classification which may be referred to provisionally as sex affiliation. The essence of it is that male children are classed with their...
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        Wild meat: the bigger picture

        Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

        Massive overhunting of wildlife for meat across the humid tropics is now causing local extinctions of numerous species. Rural people often rely heavily on wild meat, but, in many areas,...
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        Framework for assessing compensation for the wrongful loss of customary land in Papua New Guinea

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        This is an economic evaluation of the compensation to which Papua New Guinea’s customary landholders - wrongly dispossessed through Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) - might be...
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        Papua New Guinea and Culture

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        A four-week mission was undertaken in Papua New Guinea to evaluate the work of the National Cultural Council and the Provincial Cultural Centres and the relationships between them, and to...
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        STATE OF SAFEGUARDING PNG’S INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

        Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

        Our cultures and traditions are deeply entrenched in every Papua New Guinean, in our families, our homes and basically in our way of life. Our cultures and traditions are also preserved...
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        Talking it Through Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia

        Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

        The belief that illness, death and misfortune of all sorts is frequently caused by the deliberate interventions of individuals with special powers or magical knowledge is pervasive...
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        PNG prehistory, history and archaeology

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        Lecture Notes
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        Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga and the implication of links between the highlands, lowlands and islands for early agriculture in Papua New Guinea

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        Two of the unanswered questions of Papua New Guinea prehistory are: (1) whether agriculture was present in the mid-Holocene not only in the highlands but also in the lowlands and Bismarck...
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        New Guinea stone age trade

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        Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the region south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia - lands that...
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        Language

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        How can linguistics contribute to our knowledge about human dispersals in the distant past? We will consider the case of New Guinea and surrounding islands, one of the most linguistically...
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        Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea

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        For over forty years, archaeologists working along Papua New Guinea’s southern coastline have sought evidence for early ceramics and its relationship with Lapita wares of Island...
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        The Hiri in History

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        In days gone by some of the Motu-speaking peoples around Port Moresby used to go on annual trading expeditions to the Gulf of Papua. There they would exchange with the inhabitants of that...
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        Karawari caves Precinct

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        Midway up the slopes of the Andogoro, Moirutapa, and Kundiman mountains that rise up from the surrounding floodplains and separate East Sepik Province from Enga and Western Highlands...