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Archaeological fieldwork at Eripe cave complex (Gulf province, Papua New Guinea)

From the 29th May to the 20th of June 2024, a team of six people carried out the 2nd fieldwork of the Papuan Past Project in the Purari region, following our 2023 survey.

They undertook an archaeological excavation in the Eripe cave complex in the upper Purari region, near Uraru village (Kikori district, Gulf province). The team was composed of two CNRS researchers – French National Centre for Scientific Research (François-Xavier Ricaut, Sébastien Plutniak), one student from the University of Toulouse, France (Martial Seguin), one researcher from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil (Astolfo Araujo), one researcher from the University of Papua New Guinea (Matthew Leavesley), and one cultural heritage officer from TotalEnergies EP PNG Ltd (Avis Babalu) who is also pursuing a Master’s in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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Biological anthropology fieldwork at the University of Papua New Guinea: studies on stress, diet, and genetic diversity

The early 2023 Papuan Past Project fieldwork in Papua New Guinea took place from the 27th January to the 14th of February. While part of the team conducted archaeological surveys along the Purari River (Gulf Province), Nicolas Brucato, Christopher Kinipi, and Sébastien Plutniak pursued biological anthropology research at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), and were based at the archaeological lab). They followed three lines of investigations: stress, diet habits and genetic diversity in Papua New Guinea.

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Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: fieldwork in Mount Wilhelm

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Papuan Past Project 2019 – Photos: shooting of a film