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Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: shooting of a film

Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: excavation at Manim rock shelter, PNG Highlands.

Excavation at Manim

Daily life during the excavation

The surroundings of the site

Resting at the hamlet nearby

Living together during the fieldwork

Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: stay at Awim, East Sepik

Environmental Knowledge and Social Relations: Forest Caves in a Rural Community in Northern Papua New Guinea (presentation at the “Frognet” conference)

Sébastien Plutniak participated in the Frognet conference on social networks in Toulouse, France (27-28th May 2019). He presented the preliminary results of his analysis on the social distribution of knowledge related to the caves in Awim village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. His study complements the archaeological study of rock art in this region undertaken in the framework of the Papuan Past Project. This post presents the abstract of the talk in English and in French.

Abstract

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